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From: leeke@cascade.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Buying: PC vs. the Mac
Message-ID: <90@cascade.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 30-Apr-86 09:43:46 EDT
Article-I.D.: cascade.90
Posted: Wed Apr 30 09:43:46 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 3-May-86 17:20:35 EDT
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Reply-To: leeke@su-cascade.arpa (Steven D. Leeke)
Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Laboratory
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Keywords: Mac > IBM

First we had an Osborne I and I tried to get my wife to sit and learn how
to use it.  After all, it did have wordstar.  For some reason, vacuuming,
cooking, working, ANYTHING seemed more interesting.  I had plenty of time
on the Oz.

Second was a Compaq portable w/ 512k.  After I got Word Perfect 4.0 my wife
even spent a couple of hours a month typing away on letters and entering
financial update info.  Again, I had all the computer time I wanted.

Finally, with the Oz and Compaq gone (I was hoping to find something that
she would enjoy using), we bought a 128k (later upgraded to 512k) Mac.  I
don't know quite what happened, but I suddenly found myself having to go
into the office at night to use THEIR Mac, and I even found my wife up
at 7am on a Saturday typing away.  She finally realized she ought to have
breakfast sometime in the early afternoon.  Anyway, now she wants a MacPlus
with a 20meg. SCSI disk.  Thanks alot Apple, now I have to schedule computer
time!  Seriously, my wife has never looked at a manual and churns out alot
her work on it.

For me and my wife, the Mac IS the one for the rest of us.

Steve Leeke