Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Commodore Business Machines Message-ID: Date: 28 Jun 91 21:27:23 GMT References: <1109.2865f0a9@vger.nsu.edu> <7516@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <1128.2868758b@vger.nsu.edu><7592@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Organization: Michigan Information eXchange Lines: 21 lmbailey@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Laurana Bailey) writes: >Most home users buy clones. A lot of businesses have made the changes >to the PS/2 series. You can see tons of them at work in Comerica >Bank's Operations Center in Auburn Hills, MI. Other local companies to >me have also started using them. Home users stick with the clones >because they are cheaper. People around here buy whats made in the USA(and says so on the front), because, I am told, that if there is the perception that its from Japan, or Korea, or anywhere else, that some workers (especially temperary help) just bang on the keyboards as hard as they can trying to break it! They go and fiddle withit unplugging/plug in things while they are on, etc, just trying to fry the equipment...At least this is what I was told at Uniroyal when I asked why they had all PS/2's... -- C-UseNet V0.42f Ronald Kushner Life in Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 P.O. Box 353 14400 USR HST V.42 & V.42bis Sterling Heights, MI 48311-0353 Complete Amiga Support UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner (We are not satanic, just NUTS!) A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.