[comp.sys.apple] GEOS good or bad?

glk287@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu (02/23/89)

	My old apple IIe has gotten the AE face lift, i.e.
	transwarp, 512K ramworks.  Does anyone have any
	info on GEOS, good, bad... remarks...

					Spieu!

stern@chippewa.cis.ohio-state.edu (jeffrey a. stern) (02/25/89)

glk:	I have GEOS.  I don't use it, because although it is very pretty it
	is slow.  You have a transwarp and might benefit from it more.  Also,
	you can take more advantage of it if you have a dot matrix printer.
	I have a daisy wheel, and although this works, you won't get all of
	the typefaces available on GeoWrite and GeoPublish (I don't have 
	Publish).

	Honestly, I prefer programs capitalizing on text and mice.  If you 
	want to buy GEOS from me, let me know by E/Mail.  I spent around
	$90 on it from Programs Plus (I think it was listing at somewhat
	higher than $130 retail at the time, though).

	Also, it does have a bug or two which might have been my disk drive.
	It tended to lose documents--ugh! though they may have this fixed.
	Another thing it didn't do was recognize my AE RamFactor card, al-
	though it recognized the Apple Computer card... In the second release
	of Geos they fixed this, though, and if you don't buy it from me, I
	may get an upgrade to take advantage of this.  Product upgrades are
	cheap though (I think $20 or $40), and you might be able to get a
	copy of any of the newer disks (except the main copy-protected one)
	from a friend for $0.

	When I show it to people, they really go, "Wow!  Your computer is
	neat!"  But for productivity (writing letters, modem-ing, writing
	in assembler, disk utilities), I stick to the basics.

	Let me know by E/Mail if you have any more questions.

	Jeff Stern.