Re: About this group

[julian814@hotmail.com (Ralph Glatt)]

grent@comcast.net (Geo3) wrote in message news:<b66becf.0312260707.266ead38@posting.google.com>...
> First, I want to wish everybody a happy holiday.
> 
>   I would like say this is one of the best groups for getting
> information on the Apple II/IIgs. Even if you do not get an answer to
> your question. Other areas like Delphi are ok, but do not have the
> traffic or interaction that we have here.
>   When I needed information on the Mac, the groups I have run across,
> do not come close to this group. Everything in (Mac) there group is
> all lumped together. Even some of the Mac User groups in and around me
> are not that friendly. One near Ann Arbor, has an auction every year.
> I used to go there for the Apple II items. But trying to find out
> about it was like trying to crack apple II 5.25 disks that were
> protected. You could Email there group, there members, and get no
> response. Some of them were at one time Apple IIgs members of an east
> side club, with no replies from any of them. Even after donating a
> pile of mac items, for there auction, and a stern email to them no
> reply. But at the AUCTION they wanted you to jion the group. Maybe I
> am as ugly as troll and scare the small children, not quite sure.
>   Syndicom"s group may be good or even better, but I have been trying
> to cut costs, I may not have a job in the next 6 months. The place is
> like black hole in sucking up all the jobs. Others I have talked are
> in the same boat. Syndicom, seems like a tightly knit group, that
> rarely venture out. You can read the Lamp which is great, but I douubt
> that anybody outside of there group is posted in it.
> It is great that there is a place like Syndicom, and that there are
> Apple II people that are will to pay for it. It say a lot for the
> Apple II. Not trying to put them down in any way.

Hi, George!

Try not to be too hard on the Syndicomm bunch. They had some issues
with some people who used to frequent here, which is why they broke
off into their own little world. Granted, the worst offender seems to
have finally left, but it's not easy to lose hard feelings. And it's
not like they're totally inaccessable - I was having problems with my
hard drive for my //c, and they offered me some helpful advice. They
even helped me get the Time in a Bottle CD, which contains all the
software that used to belong on the GEnie server, for which I am
grateful. Yes, they are a for-pay service, but that's because it takes
money to keep a server running. The price really isn't that bad,
though I must admit that I can't afford it right now, since I am a
struggling college student.

I'm sure you'll find a lot of helpful people here, too. Practically
everything I've learned about the Apple // this past year, I learned
from Bill Garber.


Ralph Glatt