Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!midway!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!atropa!berger From: berger@atropa (Dire Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: The future of the past mac Message-ID: <1990Nov16.215447.26110@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 16 Nov 90 21:54:47 GMT References: <1990Nov15.220217.20055@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1990Nov16.041905.7430@swbatl.sbc.com> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 15 george@swbatl.sbc.com (George Nincehelser 5-6544) writes: >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? >-- The computer, by its very nature, is not a toaster (nor an automobile). How many of us are really foresighted enough to KNOW what we will need two years hence? -- Mike Berger Department of Statistics, University of Illinois AT&TNET 217-244-6067 Internet berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu