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From: fiddler@concertina.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Low cost Mac's ?
Message-ID: <141581@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 30 Aug 90 16:45:16 GMT
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In article <6850@milton.u.washington.edu>, grahams@milton.u.washington.edu (Stephen Graham) writes:
> In article <25541.26DA84DD@stjhmc.fidonet.org> Chris.Gehlker@p12.f56.n114.z1.fidonet.org (Chris Gehlker) writes:
> [Much deleted]
> >magazines say they need a 386.  Then they only run Word Perfect.  What these
> >folks need is a solid 8086 machine.
> 
> If they only use the computer for a few hours a week and for
> word-processing, what they need is a typewriter. Much cheaper,
> easy to learn, familiar interface, low software cost...

***TYPEWRITER??!!!***

(Getting out garlic, torches, sharpened stakes...)

Those wonderful devices that let you retype four pages of a five-page
document when you decide to move a paragraph on page one...or retype
and entire page if you find a spelling error on it (and you *will*
find the spelling error at the worst possible time and in the least
convenient possible place).

Where's my nitroglycerine?...

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