TE880714%STUDTEW.UFSIA.AC.BE@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Stefan Bracke) (10/26/89)
Hello All|
I am one of the few Apple //GS owners in Belgium.
The situation here is getting out of hand: I remember Apple as being the first
company that offered the man in the street a low-budget computer. The whole
idea was that IBM, HP and others were business-minded = BIG BUCKS.
Since Apple manufactured its first Macintosh (a fine and enjoyable machine)
things were going wrong here... Now we are in a situation were Apple Belgium
doesn't support the //-line anymore. Shops with fancy names, once a kind of sup
ermarket where Apple !+ and //e owners could buy what they desired, now turned
into Mac-centers. NEVER,never tell the salesmen your a hobbyist. They look at
you like a dog with flees. They don't care if your //GS needs new batteries.
If your not a pain in the ***, they will change them. But at what cost|||
I once had a faulty disk drive. They charged me 8000 bfr. or 200$ for a job
that a Dutch shop would do for not even a third of that price|||
Another chapter is Software. Updates of GS/OS cost about 25$. Other software
also costs money but slightly more: I recently bought a game for my brother
- SHANGAI - for about 105$. Now I have 5 games, 1 painting program, ofcourse
Appleworks 2.0, SDE, some PD-software and transferred //e software.
I am almost sad I bought an Apple //GS if I look to other brands, but one thing
keeps me happy. There is a lot of software for GS (I read INCIDER). Maybe one
day, it will come to us at normal prices.
I would like to know if other europeans have the same problems.
And to the Americans among us, You're living in an APPLE-PARADISE; Enjoy it.
Greetings, Stefan Bracke
Venneborglaan 77
2100 Deurne
Belgium