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From: cs2532aa@unm-cvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Consumer Reports on Mac
Message-ID: <153@unm-cvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 20-Jan-85 04:24:50 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 20 04:24:50 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 23-Jan-85 05:43:14 EST
Reply-To: cs2532aa@unm-cvax.UUCP (Ernie Longmire)
Organization: Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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>> The latest (january 1985) issue of Consumer Reports discusses the Macintosh
>> ... Below is an excerpt from their
>> "Recommendations" section, jsut to let you know what they think about it.
>> 
>> ... We prefer it
>>     to the IBM family for those who do not require that old family tie.
>
>...and for people who don't require a decent selection of software, or
>speed in starting or leaving applications, or color, or a good native
>development environment, or ...
>-- 
>D Gary Grady
>USENET:  {seismo,decvax,ihnp4,akgua,etc.}!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary

Well, if we're going to start this argument again, we could always talk
about the //c or 128K //e, each of which has 16-color capability and over
five times the software available for anything IBM puts out, and gee, with
the //c you don't even have to buy any esoteric extra garbage to use the
stuff! :-)

	Happy Days,

		.rne.

	"Who 'ya gonna call?"
	"BLUE BUSTERS!"