Re: About Mark Twain (was Re: August 1988 Issue of inCider magazine....)

[rubywand@swbell.net]

Joe Kohn writes ...
> 
>  >If you, <expletive deleted>, and others want to believe the
>  >machines came from a genuine Apple effort to upgrade the GS, fine.
> 
> Well, Rubywand, if you read the article about the Mark Twain in Shareware
> Solutions II (http://www.crl.com/~joko) you would have learned that Apple
> did officially announce the Mark Twain computer at the 1991 National Apple
> User Group convention.
>

     It would be nice to believe Apple still loved us in the 90's.

     As you may have heard, thanks to a flap over your esteemed colleague's 
work to reclassify Word Perfect, csa2 has entered a new age of Validation! 
Nevertheless, it would seem a crass imposition to request a posting here, on 
csa2, of the text of the official Apple, Inc. Mark Twain GS announcement 
including the name of Apple's spokesman and his/her position.

     Still, there is a bit of ambiguity in the statement "... Apple did 
officially announce the Mark Twain ...". For example, did Apple specify that 
"Mark Twain" is/ would be an Apple Computer, Inc.-developed and produced 
upgrade version of the GS or merely acknowledge pro-][ efforts of some Apple 
employees? Do announced specs/features resemble those of machines currently 
known as "Mark Twain" prototypes? Was a possible release date mentioned? Did 
the Mark Twain GS make the cover of any large-circulation A2 publication? (If 
so, which issue?) ...

     If the facts can be established clearly and with no taint of fudgery it 
will, whatever the outcome, be a great help in resolving an old controversy.


Rubywand