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From: sutin@astrovax.UUCP (Brian M. Sutin)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Buying: PC vs. the Mac
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Date: Sat, 10-May-86 09:36:26 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 10 09:36:26 1986
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> The need for letter quality printing, REAL letter quality, not all this
> "near" letter quality crap that's insufficient for the standards of many
> editors ...

I didn't want to buy a micro for years because there were no affordable
letter quality printers available, but I just picked up a Smith-Corona
daisy wheel for cheap, so I but down cash on a Mac+.  I hope it's worth
it, because I didn't even consider an I(diots)B(umpkins)M(orons).  I've
hooked this thing up to the local VAX, and it prints better than most
typewriters, although one must have patience ( 12 cps ).

The reason for wanting a letter quality is that dot-matrix is not
acceptable for many editors in the humanities.  PC-type magazines, and
science journals, of course don't care -- typewriters don't do equations,
graphs, or diagrams.  I took writing courses as an undergraduate where
the professor specifically requested no computer output.  Luckily most Lit
profs can't recognize laserprinter output!

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Brian Sutin
Department of Astrophysical Sciences
Princeton University

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