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From: cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple Computer in Japan
Keywords: Macintosh Japan Software
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Date: 28 Mar 90 15:40:25 GMT
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In article <16908@well.sf.ca.us> jng@well.sf.ca.us (James N. Gershfield) writes:
>
>Articles have appeared in the press recently stating that John
>Sculley intends to make Apple Japan a one billion dollar (revenues)
>company by 1993.
>
>I am interested to hear what the current feeling is in Japan toward
>the Apple Macintosh computer. Who is using the Mac? What is it being
>used for? Is the Mac really growing in popularity in Japan?
>
>Please post replies to the net. However, if I receive E-mail, I will
>summarize and post summary to the net.
>
>Thank you very much.
>
Well, I cannot speak for Japan, but I work for a large Japanese bank on
Wall St. in Manhattan.  As near as I can tell, our office is equipped 
in much the same manner as our head office in Tokyo.  The Mac is much
more widely used than MessyDos machines.  The execs find it much
easier to use and more reliable.  However, this might have something
to do with the fact that all of our Macs are Mac IIcx's with internal
hard drives 5mb RAM, 19 inch mono monitors and 1 laserwriter IInx
for every 3 Macs.  I would say that in an office of 250 people,
we have about 80 Macs and about 30 PeeCee's (Compaq 386/20mhz).
Besides, the macs are much more easy to network than the MS-Dos machines,
and that is a very important consideration in an office environment.

>Jim Gershfield
>jng@well.sf.ca.us


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