Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!george From: george@swbatl.sbc.com (George Nincehelser 5-6544) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: The future of the past mac Message-ID: <1990Nov16.041905.7430@swbatl.sbc.com> Date: 16 Nov 90 04:19:05 GMT References: <1990Nov15.220217.20055@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: Southwestern Bell Advanced Technology Laboratory Lines: 17 In article <1990Nov15.220217.20055@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> berger@atropa (Dire Wolf) writes: >I don't expect a toaster to be expandable or easily upgradable. I >do expect that of a computer which is supposed to be more flexible than >a toaster by its very nature. People who buy toaster-computers are not >very foresighted, in my opinion. But I don't think it's fair to expect >computer users to be satisfied with the very same hardware and software >two years down the line. Some of us are foresighted enough to know that we'll never need expandability or upgradability in the toaster machines that we buy. Why pay for something that you know you are not going to need? -- / George D. Nincehelser \ uunet!swbatl!george \ / / Southwestern Bell Telephone \ Phone: (314) 235-6544 \ / / / Advanced Technology Laboratory \ Fax: (314) 235-5797 \ / / / /\ 1010 Pine, St. Louis, MO 63101 \ de asini umbra disceptare \