Seek ideas for Apple II article in PC magazine

[buggie@mirac.unm.edu (stephen e buggie)]

                 SOLICITING YOUR IDEAS ON APPLE II!
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We have a statewide monthly computer magazine of about 100 pages, loaded 
with features, ads, and pictures.  The magazine is 90% IBM PC, 10% 
Macintosh, and 0% Apple II.

I am preparing an article, tentatively to be titled, APPLE II 
RENAISSANCE, to submit to this magazine.  The odds are against the 
magazine accepting it, but I want to try.

The theme of the article will be that there are many unrecognized 
advantages of the Apple II that encourage our loyalty to this platform.  
I will also review the capabilities of the A2, which are unnoticed by 
outsiders.  Briefly, here are some points that I will make:

Virus-free computing --- despite getting software fr4om various sources, 
viruses are virtually unknown.

Confidentiality of data:  College gradebook data are sensitive and 
confidential, yet security of gradebook disks (especially in 3.5" disks)
is excellent because so few others can read the disks.

Relative immunity from hardware theft.  The classic IIe looks old, and 
does not tempt thieves.  IIgs can be made less tempting to theives by 
transferring the CPU into the IIe casing --- the "stealth IIgs." 

Durability and flexibility of A2 hardware.

Huge software library is available.

A2 can do nearly everything that IBM or Mac can do, other than pictorial 
services of WWW.  (But many regard the web as excessively commercial; 
e-mail and text-based newgroups are for serious users).  Pictorial 
web-browsers are being developed for IIgs, for those interested.

Text-based internetting means that parents need not worry about kids 
being corrupted by pictorial pornography.  

WHAT OTHER POINTS SHOULD BE PRESENTED?  I would appreciate e-mailed 
suggestions.  You can put your remarks on the net too, but please respond 
to my e-mail address

                            buggie@unm.edu

so that I can print the replies.  (On this Gateway 2000 peecee, I can't 
print the publicly posted news --- just the e-mail.)

I wont be able to acknowledge others' contributions of the article, but I 
will mail a reprint to  suggesters if the magazine accepts it.  (If the 
article appears in time for KansasFest, I will pass reprints to attenders.)

Thanks.    Steve Buggie		200 College Rd   Gallup NM 87301