knauer@suna2 (Rob Knauerhase) (08/30/90)
In article <13698@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes: >I note that a local Electronics Boutique has dropped ALL Macintosh software, >although they still have some Apple II and Commodore software. Does that >mean the Macintosh is officially dead? :-) [snip, snip] >I actually have trouble finding IIGS software to spend my >limited software budget on. This implies to me that there is a sizeable >untapped market if only the software publishers and distributors knew how >to reach it. (Software stores in malls around here seldom have any new IIGS >software that I want, and when both 8-bit Apple II and IIGS versions of a >product are released, they tend to stock just the 8-bit one, since "it says >on the box that it will run on a IIGS". No wonder sales have slumped!) I haven't yet seen a mall-type software store that I was happy with (with the exception of the books at Waldensoftware). My suggestion would be to go mail order, either from one of the many places people have recommended here or from a good store. I can recommend the Micro Center (Columbus, OH), which brags about being "the largest [single] computer store". They have a couple walls-full and a few shelves-full of GS software, at mail-order competitive pricing. [Call to be put on their mailing list for catalogs.] The reason I mention a store in a forum such as this is that they will take mail-order on any non-Apple product. I know many people and user-groups from surrounding metropolises who make weekend excursions to shop at Micro Center. They also have a store in Atlanta, GA, and I believe Raleigh, NC. I'm in no way affiliated with Micro Center, and I don't mean this to be a commercial for them [I've worked for competing stores, and have had other reasons not to like them, all of which are past...]. However, I've found them to be a good source for GS hardware/software. You may also have heard of them as MEI Micro Center, a separate division under which they mail-order blank disks and supplies at nationally-lowest prices. Rob Knauerhase +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Robert C. Knauerhase | | knauer@cs.uiuc.edu | U of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign| | rck@ces.cwru.edu,knauer@cwru.bitnet | Case Western Reserve University | | knauer@scivax.lerc.nasa.gov | NASA Lewis Research Center | +----------------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | "Computers are different from telephones. Computers do not ring." | | -- A. Tanenbaum, "Computer Networks", p. 32 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+