Re: new Apple announcement: Apple IIgs is obsolete (again)

[shack@southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <nipp-F5F8DA.10223415012000@news.planet.nl>,
Pim Blokland  <nipp@nipp.nl> wrote:

>> The Apple IIgs was declared obsolete by Apple on 10 January 2000.
>> 
>> http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000114/ma_pre_own_1.html
>
>Yes. According to that list, the Apple IIgs was first declared obsolete 
>on September 1, 1998. And then again on Jan 10 2000.
>Apparently, it didn't work the first time!

If you all bothered to read the full text of that article, it said that in
declaring all that stuff obsolete, Apple is saying that it no longer stocks
replacement parts etc for those products. With that in mind, I would expect
that the earlier announcement was for ROM 0/01 boxes and the latter for ROM 3
boxes, or some such scenario.

You'll notice that just about every Mac II and the early Quadras are on that
list too. As I said elsewhere in this thread, this means little since it's
been a very long time since anyone with any sense would want to have Apple
repair stuff that old. They'd want as much for any one part as you could
find a whole heap of the kind of box you have needing the part on the used
market or from some of the mail order parts places. So handing off official
support to Pre Owned Electronics is a good thing. Heck, I could walk to their
warehouse in Burlington from here but last I knew they don't do walk ins.
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