Re: ][

[cvotter@prairienet.org (Gary Sutton)]

Dave Althoff (dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us) wrote:
: Finally, what is the problem with using "Apple ][" to refer to our
: beloved machines?  That's how one of my ][e's refers to itself; also,

Actually, I refer to my IIGS by her name, Karma.  I thought that would 
make her sound a bit more personalized than just 'The IIGS'.  Anyone else 
name their systems?  :)


: "Apple ][" will never be mistaken for anything Macintosh...remember that
: the Macintosh II does exist and it does cause confusion.  And

Karma just recently got mistaken for a Mac.  A few weeks ago, we were 
scouting out local ISPs, trying to get a nice shell account.  One of the 
places we checked out declared that they were discontinuing shell 
accounts because no one uses them anymore (Guess us II users are 
considered no one, eh?)  Anyway, when we told them that we were using a 
IIGS, they said, 'Oh.  You have a Mac?'  We then went into a long 
dissertation about what a GS was and was not.  Finally, after we thought 
they got it into their 300bps brains that there is such a thing as Apple 
II, some other employee came in and he was promptly told that we have a 
Mac.  All we could do then was leave in disgust.  What happened to the 
days when people in the computer industry were required to have some 
degree of intelligence?

Well, that's my ][ cents worth.  O:3

Yerf!

Otter