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From: cyliao@eng.umd.edu (Chun-Yao Liao)
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Subject: Re: Accepting the Mac (was Re: More Macweek Rumors)
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Date: 18 Mar 90 23:11:46 GMT
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In article <1990Mar17.172902.9711@athena.mit.edu> tmyers@athena.mit.edu (Tracy S Myers) writes:

>for his office.  The salesperson tried to sell him a ][e.  I persuaded
>him to buy a PC-XT.  It was one of my better pieces of advice.  The ][
>series is a dead line.  It was killed long ago by MS-DOS which squeezed
>it out of the business market, and by Commodore 64's
>and the like (which were far cheaper) that squeezed it out of the home
>market.  All the talk about what Apple should have done 10 years ago
>won`t change market reality.  Even if Apple had made substantially
>more powerful ][-series machines, it seems unlikely they would have
>been able to overcome either the market's perception of the ][ as a 'home' 
>computer or the perception that `IBM`( meaning the IBM name) legitimized 
>the personal computer in business.  The only people buying the ][ series
>in any numbers in recent years are schools.  I don't want to start
>a Apple ][ is better than MS-DOS or Mac or other such war.  I merely
>want to point out that for better or worse, the ][ is dead for reasons
>which do not neccessarily concern the machine or its capabilities.
>
>Wake up and take a hard look at reality.  I used to have an Apple ][e, and
>was very fond of it.  In its day it was a very nice machine, but no
>amount of upgrading and patching up will help the ][.  It's dead so let
>it rest in peace.  

Wake up you! I guess you wrote this when your body temperature is over
100 degree fahrenheit... 

Don't make me wrong, not many people at my working place like to use an IBM
or MeSsy-Dos oriented computer. Every single person who I suggested to try
out a Mac II or an Apple //gs never go back to IBM again unless using the
IBM is part of their HW assignment. Hey, I am not talking about elementary
school, I am talking about adult education technology center! Forgot to 
mention that we have Mac IIs, a few Mac SE, Apple //gses, Apple //es, and
IBM ps/2s in a separate small and "hotter" room while the number of IBMs is
practically the same to the number of Mac IIs or to the Apple //s.

Excuse me for my use of languages.
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