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From: palmer@whistler.sfu.ca (Leigh Palmer)
Subject: Re: 030 and 040 cards for the LC
Message-ID: <1991May2.183731.21678@newsserver.sfu.ca>
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Organization: Simon Fraser University
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Date: Thu, 2 May 91 18:37:31 GMT
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In article <1991May01.230627.16339@bmerh2.bnr.ca> myhui@bnr.ca (Michael Hui)
writes:
>In article <1991May1.194602.5350@newsserver.sfu.ca> palmer@whistler.sfu.ca
(Leigh Palmer) writes:
>[...]
>>  2. Your low opinion of us is entirely justified. I just ordered
>>     an LC in full knowledge of your rotten attitude.
>>
>>That's why so many of us are sitting here rooting for NeXT to make it!
>
>Why didn't you buy a NeXT instead then? It simply doesn't make sense.
>
>      Michael MY Hui      Ottawa Canada      myhui@bnr.ca
>
I'm not buying a NeXT for two reasons, one good and one bad:
 
  1. NeXT has a severe vaporware problem. Applications are not appearing
     rapidly enough to justify my making the jump, though there is better
     value in the hardware. If I were doing development NeXT would be my
     choice, but I rely on applications. There is not really a satisfactory
     substitute for MacDraw, for example, on the NeXT, and I need that.
     Mac applications appeared much more rapidly in the beginning.
 
  2. I have the DOS-inertia syndrome, Part II. The same disease which kept
     less adventurous MS-DOS users from converting to the clearly superior
     Macintosh keeps me now from jumping to NeXT. I have a large (personal)
     investment in Macintosh hardware and software, over $7,000. Its market
     value used is negligible, so I am throwing C$3,500 good money after it
     to buy my new LC (yes, that's what a reasonably equipped* LC costs at a
     university in Canada, including all taxes). *10 Mbytes RAM, 105 Mbytes
     HD, and Apple monochrome monitor.
 
On a lighter note, I'll share with you a response I got to my last posting:
 
>From god@apple.com Wed May  1 19:19:02 1991
>
>Leigh,
>
>You have a shitty attitude.  Why don't you get a real life.  The
>Mac LC is not crippled, just your attitude!
>
>God
 
It's hard to please those guys, even when you buy their stuff!
 
Leigh Hunt Palmer
Simon Fraser University