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From: 6500erik@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Erik Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Being A Modern Mac User (was 16mhz Classic)
Keywords: hard drives, bicycles
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Date: 13 Dec 90 03:13:31 GMT
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I didn't write down the references, but recently two comments
were made (some might call them "flames") regarding being
a comtemporary Mac User:

One claimed that those of us who do not have hard disks are not
Mac Users.  I think this is just nonsense.  I may not be on
the "bleeding edge" of SOFTWARE, but I am still a Mac user.  Sure
harddisks have been around since 1985 (1984?), but that does
not mean that everyone who uses a Mac will own one.  I have
used Macs with harddisks, I like them, I want one very much
but I am quite comfortable using my Mac without one.

Of course, most of the software I use is 2 years old or so, with
a few exceptions (like the system 6.0.4 that I am currently using).

Furthermore, I will be getting a harddrive and new Mac Classic as
soon as the UCSB bookstore has them without harddisks and 2 megs
of memory, better deals being available on those items from other
vendors.

Another response asserted some foolish comparison between using
a Mac without a harddrive to riding a bicycle instead of driving
a car.  I ride a bicycle every day to school and consider it
a vastly superior form of tranportation.  Cars smell, are expensive,
and let you get fat.  And 25 years from now when gas prices creep
over $5.00 a gallon (or sooner, depended on our boys on vacation
in Saudi Arabia :-), my bicycle's day-to-day costs will still
probably be less and $0.01 a day.

So there.

Erik
6500erik@ucsbuxa.bitnet or 6500erik@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu
"I'm a bigger fan of Milli Vanilli than I ever was before."