Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 SMI; site sun.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!decwrl!sunny From: sunny@sun.uucp (Sunny Kirsten) Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.apple,net.flame Subject: Re: Apple Shafts America; or, The Computer For the Rich of Us Message-ID: <1695@sun.uucp> Date: Thu, 20-Sep-84 11:43:04 EDT Article-I.D.: sun.1695 Posted: Thu Sep 20 11:43:04 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 01:24:51 EDT References: <1267@unm-cvax.UUCP> Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 15 Seethings: After all those wonderful words of love for Mackintosh marketing, I could only feel a lack of extreme sympathy, having shelled out $7K for a Lisa I with the intent of buying LisaPascal to do some programming with... Well, first there's the problem of you couldn't get LisaPascal from the dealers, because Apple pretty much stopped distributing the Twiggy version, in anticipation of the "upgrade" from two 800KB Twiggy drives to 1 400KB Sony. Of course I'm still waiting, a year later, for my dealer to get a free "upgrade" kit to upgrade my Lisa I to a Lisa II so I can buy a programming language for the bitch. (are you listening, Apple?) On the other hand, I wouldn't trade my Lisa for anything but a Sun workstation. -- {ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sun!sunny (Sunny :-> Kirsten of Sun Microsystems Inc.)