Re: Old Beige?

["Jason Whorton" <jason@microxl.com>]

    Hi.  I am disappointed to hear that my post was only seen as a "feeble"
attempt at humor.  Your mention of me trying something new has given me new
spirits, though.  :-)  After very little thought, I think I'll try to be
less funny and more helpful from now on.
    After seeing the subject of "Old beige", I was hoping to find a post of
perhaps someone reminiscing on their beige Apple II, but found yet another
Macintosh related post.  As I have been reading the Apple II newsgroups for
around 2 years off and on, I have already passed the stage of "it's getting
old" and have gone to "it's irritating" as it relates to finding off-topic
posts, especially Mac ones.  I want to read about Apple II's in CSA2, not
other stuff.  When I post to a group that I am not a frequent reader of, I
check out several posts and often ask if a topic is appropriate for that
newsgroup before posting, if I am not sure.  I think I shall include this
last bit in future "point them in the right direction" replies to the
newsgroups.

Thank you,
Jason Whorton
http://www.microxl.com/oldcomputers/main.html



Randy Shackelford wrote in message ...
>J.D. LeJeune <jdlejeune@dc.smythe.nbcc.nb.ca> wrote:
>: Thanks RubyWand, for being the only one with any manners here.  I'm sorry
>: for posting here, you could have simply directed me instead of
bashing......
>
>Yep there are some people who react unfriendly like to stray Mac related
posts
>here, but mangling posts in a feeble attempt at humor is something new.
They
>typically post a whiny followup complaining about how this is the wrong
group.
>Now of course, PC related questions get nary a complaint and usually a
useful
>answer. Never quite figured out why that is.
>
>Coupla points on your question though: regardless of what Apple calls it
now,
>there is no beige G3. They're a grey color that Apple used to market as
>platinum. And second, it's a little hard to call a G3 old. I'm still using
>a Mac from '93 and it gets the job done. Macs have a far longer useful life
>span than brand X stuff. So a grey G3 from '97 is at most middle age. Plus
>they have old fashioned SCSI and serial ports missing from the new recycled
>ice cube tray style G3s.
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