Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU!" From: "@UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: GSOS and CMS Controllers Message-ID: <8809271156.AA07493@crash.cts.com> Date: 26 Sep 88 22:08:27 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: pnet01!pro-sol!pro-newfrontier!kblack@nosc.mil Organization: The Internet Lines: 42 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. UUCP: crash!pro-newfrontier!kblack ARPA: crash!pro-newfrontier!kblack@nosc.mil INET: kblack@pro-newfrontier.cts.com "Progress doesn't enlighten people - It just makes them stupid in new ways"