Re: Which is better - IIGS or Laser 128EX?

[paul.becker@altoona.com (Paul Becker)]

Randy Shackelford  (shack@onyx.southwind.com) wrote:

->
-> Bruce Randall Baker (av428@freenet.buffalo.edu) wrote:
->
-> : I always figured that the gs was discontinued first was becasue

[ snip...]

-> the IIgs was discontinued that Apple sold precisely seven IIgses and
-> seven //e's nationwide in a one month period not long before IIgs
-> production halted. --
-> Randy Shackelford                                 I was internet
-> shack@southwind.net                               when internet
-> wasn't cool

Disclaimer: I do not remember where I first heard the following
      I do not have any idea how much truth there is to it.
      It may have only been rumor, myth, propaganda??
                         but
    Somewhere a few years ago I heard something about that in the early 
days of Apple Computer Co.  they were, supposedly, sued by Apple Records
(you know - the Beatles) for trademark infringement.  At that time, from
what I heard, Apple Computer won.  BUT they ruling said something along
the lines of that they could not make a machine capable of making and/or
recording music/sound.  Since the "S" in "GS" equals sound - Apple
records was supposed to have re-sued and won.


     If anyone else out there ever heard anything like this please 
post here.  BUT PLEASE DO NOT TAKE THIS AS FACT WITHOUT OTHER
CONFIRMATION.  I almost didn't post this for fear of starting an
untrue rumor.  That is why I'm making sure I stress that I don't know
if any of this is/isn't fact.

P.S. as for the original title - I use a Laser 128 (no EX).  It is no
match GS wins hands down in all areas except price.  If the above proves
to be just a rumor the fact remains - much of the audience for the
type of machine that the //e and //GS were about had trouble scraping
together the price Apple was asking for a system. (That DOESN'T mean
that said machines weren't worth the money.)  

                    pbecker@altoona.com