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Subject: GSOS and CMS Controllers
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Date: 26 Sep 88 22:08:27 GMT
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I'm using a CMS 60 meg drive with CMS SCSI II controller card. Other than a
problem at first ( I forgot to install the SCSI driver). I been using it for a
few days now. I've deleted files, moved files and generally messed around with
it and have had no problems at all. It seems that the Apple SCSI driver works
ok with the CMS card. I'm sure that this is just an oversight on Apples part
and in the next release of GS/OS that Apple will make sure that it won't work
correctly. Pardon my sarcasm, but I'm another Apple masochist. I really like
the computer, but I really have lots of trouble when a company deliberately
"cripples" a product. 

I even become more disenchanted with the recent price increase. I mean lets be
realistic. I know that memory prices have increased. But the price increase does
not jibe with the current OEM prices. When you complain, you get standard
Apple line "Apple doesn't comment on the pricing of individual products". How
much do those Sony drives in OEM quantities? Probably under $100. Yet Apple
charges $359. Gee, I'd like a 350% profit margin. But I digress.

If Apple is looking for comments from the net, mine would be "Wake up and
smell the roses." For the price of a GS system you could buy a really nice
amiga 2000 system and have cash left in the bank (and I don't even like Amiga)
If you charge too much for a product, people don't buy it. If thats your plan
then its gonna work real fast. And you will have a screaming mob of // users
who will never forget their treatment.

As for ways to change the policies, my suggestion is for everyone who wants a
//GS+ and a further contiuation of the // line (65832, etc.) to run out and
buy a share of Apple stock. This will give you a chance to shape the direction
of Apple. And if Mr. Sculley can't or won't listen to a anything but silent
majority, then there are always CEOs' who will, and if you will excuse the
cliche', "CEO's are a dime a dozen".

Ahh, well, its time for me to get off my soapbox. I hope that its not too late
for the // line (and believe me 1990 is too late for a GS+).

                                        Kevin Black
                                A concerned Apple // enthusiast.

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