fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden) (05/23/91)
Remember this? Check out the entry for Apr-May. ----- begin old message ----- From: fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Look what we're doing ... Summary: there is a season, turn, turn, turn (Deathmaze 5000) Date: 4 Oct 90 21:32:47 GMT In article <20756@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> curfmanm@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Matthew Curfman) writes: >Yet we the users, with our piles of hate mail, have all but destroyed a >once great group. Easy on the rhetoric. I just ate. :-) You have to understand that this group goes in cycles... Aug-Nov This is the time when Apple introduces major new products, like a new Macintosh or major GS/OS upgrade. There is initially a great deal of wild and hopeful speculation, inevitibly ending in frustration (amidst a great wailing and gnashing of teeth, etc). Dec-Jan The Christmas buying season. Lots of people wondering why Apple doesn't advertise anything but the Mac IIfx, while Amiga gets Tip O'Neil to advertise overblown pocket calculators. Feb-Mar The calm season. It's cold outside in most places, so everybody just sorta hangs out and programs. Lots of techical questions get asked. Apr-May Every BBS in North America goes wild with rumors of a new //gs. It outperforms a Cray 2 but costs less than three pounds of gummi bears. This is also the time when Apple ships such machines to non-disclosure sites, which soon busy themselves with disclosing (judging by the number of rumors). Jun-Jul Summer. Everybody's at the beach, thinking about things other than Apple IIs. People from Nebraska aren't at the beach, but they think about other things anyway. Since a large quantity of traffic here is from college students, the traffic goes down when we leave campus. As you can see, we're dead in the middle of the Apple Product cycle. Since most of our pessimistic visions have come true, the traffic should drop until people start seeing all the Macintosh ads on TV. The "piles of hate mail" haven't destroyed this group; without them, comp.sys.apple2 would be just another boring newsgroup. Besides, KILL files were invented for a reason. Please save this chart for future reference. It could save a mind. >Matt Curfman Technovelty. Inc. -- fadden@cory.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden) ..!ucbvax!cory!fadden ----- end old message ----- NOW do you guys believe me?!? :-) -- fadden@cory.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden) ..!ucbvax!cory!fadden fadden@hermes.berkeley.edu (when cory throws up)