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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: The computer as a medium (was Re: Computers in education)
Message-ID: <18396@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 7 Oct 88 16:18:05 GMT
References: <5190@juniper.uucp> <5193@juniper.uucp> <5207@juniper.uucp> <5213@juniper.uucp> <3488@cs.utexas.edu>
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In article <3488@cs.utexas.edu> kelvin@cs.utexas.edu (Kelvin Thompson) writes:
>to go -- no week-long training courses, no agonies of cables, 
>screwdrivers, and manuals.  What exactly did Jobs screw up, given
>the technological and marketing limitations of the time?

Two comments attributed to Alan Kay were:

(1) The Macintosh was like a Honda with a 1-gallon gas tank.  (In reference
to the 128K model.)

(2) The Macintosh was the first personal computer worth criticizing.

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