Re: Proposed group addition for ALL legacy Apple products

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Brian Hyer wrote:

>I agree with the "comp.sys.apple.legacy" name FWIW. It's even better than
>the one I came up with! Less awkward typing it, too.

The problem I have with this name is that is includes the Apple II series,
and I would not like to create confusion about where to go for issues
related to that line of machines.

There is much to be said for a hierarchy which is non-overlapping, with
names that are clear to all potential posters (else the Dewey Decimal
system might qualify  ;-).

I frankly think that the Lisa and Apple /// almost certainly do not
justify a separate group, and agree with Paul that the occasional
Lisa or /// question in this group just adds to the entertainment
value.

The real volume I would have guessed is in the 68K Mac arena,
but if listserv's have fizzled, maybe it's not that big, either.  ;-(

If that is the case, then it may be that "classic Macs" are now
primarily used as Apple II "peripherals", and dealing with them
here in that capacity is certainly on-topic.  Recent networking
and disk format conversion threads come immediately to mind.

-michael

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