Re: You people.

[John_L._Graham@adbbs.antioch.edu (John L. Graham)]

That what the world needs, more division. "You People" is anybody that doesn't
have the same interests as Me. Buy the same things as Me. Feels the same way
_I_ do.

CSA2 is like any other Usenet Newsgroup. We're a relatively small group that
in one way or another enjoys a common topic... the Apple II. We talk to each
other, help each other, and even old-timers like learn learns something now'n
then. Actually I learn one or two things every day, and its a lot of fun.

Everybody here has their own reason for using the Apple II. Mine is largely
two-fold. First I enjoy it. There it is, out in the open, I admit it, I LIKE
the Apple II. Heck, I even like other computers (shhhh, don't tell anybody)
and over the years I've enjoyed watching this technology come of age.
Unfortunately my interests and the computer market have gone separate ways.
Nobody's fault, just the way it is. Second, I can't afford it. When I first
got started with microcomputers some 16 years ago I was single, fresh out of
college, and for the first time in my life I had some extra cash. Now I'm
married (very happily thank you very much), three wonderful kids, two pesky
cats, a mortgage (with thread-bare carpet), a ten year old car (I ride a
Schwinn to work every day). Priorities change. In my circumstance with
already having a significant (though old some would say) computing capability
it would be a sinful waste of family resources to squander it on a new
computer and all the care and feeding (ISPs, online services, endless
shovelware CD ROMs) and its shockingly short life expectancy, all just to
keep up with the hip and happening powerfully cool people.

For me (and not necessarily anybody else) the Apple IIGS was a nice place to
stop and let others pay for the continuing development of the microcomputer
industry. I like it, my family likes it, it's paid for, and once in a while
something really cool comes out for it I can spend a little closely guarded
mad money on (just the other day I bought the System II Developer's Kit from
Kitchen Sink Software, neat stuff).

The Apple II isn;t for everybody, it never was. But if there is something
wrong with this little newsgroup "championing ancient, obsolete OS's" I fail
to see it. There are certainly worse things to do with a few minutes of spare
time here'n there throughout the day.

Whooops! Watch that first step off the soap box, it's a doozy!

Have fun!

John