On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 02:06:20PM +0100, Brunel Merleau-Ponty wrote: > >Why is it that Apple is so afraid anybody will see their service > >manuals? Seems that anybody that publishes their manuals on a website > >is hassled by Apple, and the manuals disappear after a while. > > > >Can anybody imagine a rational explanation for this? > > I don't know. Their policy on this subject seems completely irrational > and more than a little bizarre. It's almost as if they don't want > people to carry on making good use of their old computers. Apple ought > to make them freely available, they contain a lot of information which > is difficult to find elsewhere.
They're not making any money off of people who keep their old computers running. The last time they got some money from me for new hardware would've been around 1990 or 1991, when I bought a DMA SCSI card for my IIe. I still have that machine, which my parents bought new in 1985 (I upgraded it myself to a IIGS and fire it up occasionally to maintain the beer-fridge controller software I wrote that runs on a couple of other Apple IIs). Both of my Macs were purchased used; the Quadra 610 doesn't get used much now, but my beige G3 has had a ton of upgrades thrown at it (500-MHz G4, 256 MB RAM, 120 GB disk, DVD-RW, FireWire, USB 2.0, Fast Ethernet, ATA133 controller, Radeon 7000) and it manages to run Panther at a usable speed. They get some money selling new versions of Mac OS (I know there was a big stink raised when they started doing that sometime in the mid-'90s), but not nearly as much as when you buy a new box. (Over the past 23 years, I've had only three new computers, and my parents bought the first two: a TI-99/4A, an Apple IIe, and an HP notebook that I bought maybe 3 or 4 years ago. I got my first x86 box one piece at a time (but I can't say that it didn't cost me a dime :-| ), and the other machines I've had since then have been obtained/upgraded in a similar manner.) _/_ / v \ Scott Alfter (remove the obvious to send mail) (IIGS( http://alfter.us/ Top-posting! \_^_/ rm -rf /bin/laden >What's the most annoying thing on Usenet? -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
