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Subject: An open letter to all Apple II lovers/Apple Bashers
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Date: 4 May 90 03:20:06 GMT
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 >  Funny, I've seen people spending weeks reentering data for a
 >  hypercard stack into dBase on a PC after having hypercard
 >  crash several times and losing their data several times.
 >  (apparently, hypercard isn't very careful about opening and closing files)
 >  Needless to say, they gave up on hypercard rather quickly...

I'd have to agree with you here... Hypercard can be a real pain to mess
around with on a "souped-down" Mac.  I've never personally lost data from it
but I have heard of it happening quite often.

 >  The mac is one of the more unstable machines on the market.

Why do you feel this way?  Please elaborate.  I would tend to disagree,
as I feel that it is only through the Mac's stability (in terms of support,
and the company behind it) that it has achieved its market share.  I'm
of the firm belief that Apple's perceived stability stemmed from its prior
commitment to the Apple II line.  People were sure that they could trust
Apple to be around for their Mac's because Apple had the weight of the Apple
II behind them.  With Apple backstabbing the II users now, I wonder what
people are going to think of buying a Macintosh... ?   How can they be so
sure that 4 or 5 years from now Apple wount have a new line of PC's based on
some new CPU and their Macintosh's will fall by the wayside?

                              Ben Youngdahl
                        YOUNGDAHL@GACVAX1.BITNET