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Re: The Apple II Now and Forever
- Subject: Re: The Apple II Now and Forever
- From: bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar)
- Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1992 18:34:09 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
- References: <1fa4ssINNmc8@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <Byr8tx.DH0@news.iastate.edu> <philip.723865936@labtam>
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philip@labtam.labtam.oz.au (Philip Stephens) writes:
> Certainly not. But considering that Apple is planning to drop the GS from
>their product list in the near future, it's no surprise that they are
>disinclined to put the money and resources into maintaining trained
>technicians that can repair GS's. No computer company can be expected to
>support superceded models forever, even though Apple has been quicker than
>most to drop their support.
This is patently not true; the Apple II platform is 15+ years old now.
I challenge you to name _one_ other computer company that has supported
a CPU for 15 years.
BTW, Hal's middle name is not 'Byron'.
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