I will not buy any product that says it is perfect and will not have problems. That is a Sin. Or does Apple Computer have a Sinful ability to create the perfect product?
If you are interested, or if you want to hear more of a story about the answer to this question you will not be disappointed.
Joe Quirk
Palm Coast, Fla.
The writer is a trial lawyer.
...As the editor of an upmarket magazine which has been providing high-end software programs to home users for many years,
I have never seen a product with such a label as "Ultimate Media Repository." How on earth could a product like that be "SIN?"
Why not just go to a dentist, a foot specialist or even the hand specialist?
Maybe it is a joke. But the way the other ads are written, it certainly sounds like some kind of marketing gimmick.
Or perhaps this is a new use for that new commercial item called the "System X.0"? If that were true, perhaps Apple Computer could turn itself into an international information technology company instead of a computer maker.
People who find these ads appealing probably are not looking for a media repository but for a type of memory aid, one that will be good for memory's sake.
I have not had much experience with my Apple II, but I am told it will be able to do something similar.
If I were buying one, I would want to hear from the programmer who wrote the article. And I wouldn't be pleased if that were the entire problem.
• For more see TMJ's Labor Column, and the column on other Apple products.
May he live to be a thousand!
John J. Murphy
Marietta, Ga.
Apple Computer announces the new Apple File System, a new way of storing and retrieving data on the Macintosh.
I have read of a major flaw in the Macintosh computer. If it is hooked up to an RS-232 type of connection, then I can see why the FFS could fail.
That is a major flaw. It was hard enough to configure the Apple II and the IBM PC; I certainly don't want to add a fourth computer to the mix.
I suppose the best solution would be to turn off the RS-232 port and put a 400 baud parallel port in its place. That could get me from RS-232 over to the Mac. The RS-232 port must be pretty secure, however, because I don't know of any computer that has this port on one side and on the other side a parallel port.
I have already converted the I/O Port to a serial port. Can this be done with an RS-232 port? That would be a major improvement.
I think it would be better if Apple Computer would concentrate on creating a successor to the Apple II series, the Macintosh series and the Apple III, and on producing software for these different computers.
Since Apple Computer has become the biggest seller of Apple computers in the world, and since it has come to dominate the software market, the software that it produces has become totally dependent on that one proprietary line of computers. I see the potential for major problems on the horizon. It would be better for Apple Computer if it would develop its software independently, rather than relying so heavily on Apple II and Apple III computers.
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