Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!lll-winken!taco!hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu!kdarling From: kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Commodore Business Machines Message-ID: <1991Jun25.023136.10436@ncsu.edu> Date: 25 Jun 91 02:31:36 GMT References: <7471@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 17 > I once had big hopes for Commodore and the Amiga, but both seemed > doomed to stay a second class company with a second class machine. Owning a computer can be very much like a marriage. You have shotgun marriages (it's used at work); marriages of convenience (it has easy software); casual affairs (turn it on once a week); friendship or love (familiarity); narcissistic (you designed it yourself :-). The computer marriages which _never_ work out over the long run, are those based solely on "looks" or "bragging rights" or "potential popularity" or brandname "crushes". Those will fail whenever times get rough and/or if someone points out a better-looking partner. It's a natural outcome of being unnaturally fanatical about any one machine. The key is to choose what _you_ want and what fits your needs. And to not worry about what others say. If I had a nickel for every I'm-fed-up message in _any_ computer forum...