Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!gatech!mcnc!ecsvax!wmcb From: wmcb@ecsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Anti-Apple Flames (was RE: Apple's Attitude) Message-ID: <3467@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 30-Jun-87 11:13:51 EDT Article-I.D.: ecsvax.3467 Posted: Tue Jun 30 11:13:51 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jul-87 02:06:36 EDT References: Reply-To: wmcb@ecsvax.UUCP (William C. Bauldry) Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service Lines: 17 ( oh no! I feel compelled to respond...) " My next computer will be an IBM..." Hm?! I remember way back, hundreds of years ago, in 1978 when I had an IBM5100 desktop sitting around my desktop (no, Virginia, the PC wasn't their first try in the market) next to an Apple ][ -- well ,now, every- one knows we can just go buy parts and software for that 5100 off the shelf, while that old obsolete Apple ][ just collects dust; hm?! seriously, it's only obsolete when it _stops_ changing/growing; then look for a new model or a new company... statements like "isn't it a shame that computers keep getting better..." scare me. ( the compulsion left...) wcb.