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Re: Apple II obsolete???





NIPP <NIPP@darkcastle.ecore.fnet.org> wrote in article
<C050697003133.11615@darkcastle.ecore.fnet.org>...
> On the other hand, when I take a second look at your statement, I get my
> doubts: are there really "so many people" that keep telling you the
> Apple II is obsolete? Hmmm...
> As far as I know, there are 2 kinds of people:
> - those who have never heard of the Apple II.
> - those who have.
> Now the first category would not tell you the Apple II is obsolete -
> they don't know it. And the second category still use and love their
> Apples; they don't think it's obsolete at all.
> So who are those people you talk about?

How about the people who changed over to PC's in 1982 and think that a GS
looks and feels just like a 48K II+?  Or those who went Mac in the mid 80's
and think that the pinnacle of the Apple II is a GS running ProDOS16?

I'll always enjoy the memory of the day that it finally sunk into my boss's
head that my tricked-out IIe was probably more powerful than his 286. <g>

TomZ