![]() If desktop publishing is one thing the Mac does particularly well, fine. I don’t know if I represent a large percentage of the Mac community, but I know this: I am really sick of hearing about desktop publishing. Tired of wall-to-wall DTP coverage? Sue Gelinas of Culver City certainly is (page 30): Take a look at the 1987 Apple Personal Modem brochure (PDF on ), including a choice of cables. He simply refused to sell me a cable as he had six modems and six cables (packaged separately, each with its own parts number and each listed as a separate retail item). It turned out that if I did not buy my modem from him I was not entitled to purchase a cable. ![]() Sure enough, the dealer inadvertently revealed that he didn’t have cables to sell separately in stock. By the sixth dealer I was smelling a rat. So, I went to one dealer who said that they didn’t have it in stock. I had just purchased an Apple modem secondhand from a friend. Then there was the time I had with the new modem cable. (Of course, it was just the machine doing the work you start the test, go away and come back at least 3 hours later to check the results on the screen.) One dealer attempted to charge me $120 in labor for running a RAM test because it took 3 hours. ![]() This time I have come to a conclusion: I will never return to an Apple dealer to buy anything that I can just as easily mail-order, unless Apple changes many of the policies and procedures associated with their dealer network. Neil Shapiro has some choice words for Apple dealers on page 19.Ī few days ago I angrily walked out of an Apple dealership, as I have done many times before. In 1986, buying a Macintosh direct was impossible: you had to go to a dealer. Download 68K Mac software from Macintosh Garden and Macintosh Repository. ![]() Pick up your copy of MacUser December 1986 from the Internet Archive. If you have any suggestions or corrections, please contact or join the 68k Mac Liberation Army. This month we get colourful with the Apple IIGS, watch Apple adverts with Roger Ebert, build a network with PhoneNET, run an email server from a floppy disk, and rage against poor service from Apple dealers. New to the series? Start at the beginning with October 1985. This post is based on the December 1986 issue. The best-selling franchise returns this year with a complete overhaul of the graphics engine, offering the most striking and immersive visuals and effects, along with the deepest and most complete farming experience ever.įarming Simulator 19 takes the biggest step forward yet with the franchise’s most extensive vehicle roster ever! You’ll take control of vehicles and machines faithfully recreated from all the leading brands in the industry, including for the first time John Deere, the largest agriculture machinery company in the world, Case IH, New Holland, Challenger, Fendt, Massey Ferguson, Valtra, Krone, Deutz-Fahr and many more.įarming Simulator 19 will feature new American and European environments in which to develop and expand your farm and will introduce many exciting new farming activities, including new machinery and crops with cotton and oat! Tend to your livestock of pigs, cows, sheep, and chickens - or ride your horses for the first time, letting you explore in a brand-new way the vast land around your farm.Welcome back to A Macintosh History: a history of the early Apple Mac told through the pages of MacUser magazine.
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