Re: What has changed in the Apple world last 6 months?

["Mark Hasslinger" <hkram@milwpc.com>]

when you retire lets us know so we can put those 17 units back to good work
and not in the dumpster.

been away for two years but still have the Apple IIs for ever
Mark
"Steve Jensen" <sjensen@ns.qnisyourknife.net> wrote in message
news:JqEW5.215$ocp3.72351945@news.randori.com...
> Hey Dave and Supertimer-
> I just checked back on csa2 after being gone for about a year. My GS
> is still sitting patiently waiting to be used as backup when the dsl
> goes down or this silly Presario gets tangled up. I still have 17 GS's
> working in my classroom, but they will probably meet their fate when I
> retire in a couple years. Sad, but inevitable.
>
> Steve J.
>
> Dave Althoff Jr <dalloff@gcfn.org> wrote:
> > Supertimer (supertimer@aol.com) wrote:
> > : I used to participate daily in this newsgroup but I left it behind
> > : about half a year ago.  What has happened in the Apple II
> > : world since then?  Scanning the ng, I noticed that there are
> > : far less new IIGS "power users" than before and almost no
> > : mention of Alltech Electronics.
>
> > Hi, Supertimer!
>
> > Looks like we both left c.s.a2 at about the same time and both returned
at
> > about the same time.
>
> > Unlike you, my primary computers at home are still the IIgs I am using
> > right now, and the file://e across the desk.  I'm not doing much with
the IIgs,
> > but it's the most powerful desktop machine I own right now.  Well, I do
> > have that Lisa 2/5 gathering dust in the other room, but that hardly
counts.
>
> > Maybe after I get my camcorder paid off next September I can buy a new
> > computer.  Maybe by then Apple will be selling Macintoshes with a G5
CPU.
> > Don't know if it's in the works, I just think it would be neat to have a
> > GS at one end of the desk and a G5 at the other (look at the typography
> > from across the room to see what I mean...)
>
> > --Dave Althoff, Jr.
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