Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!jordan From: jordan@Apple.COM (Jordan Mattson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mac vs. PC -- Shut Up Already! Message-ID: <37795@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 12 Jan 90 18:35:21 GMT References: <2925@optilink.UUCP> <867@dvnspc1.Dev.Unisys.COM> <10560@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 42 Dear Michael - An interesting observation that I would like to continue. Living here in Silicon Valley, I find that many of my friends work for a number the various companies in the valley. I have friends that work at Sun, HP, Qume, Apple, Rolm, and, gasp!, IBM. And we have our joking fights about my company and computer is better than your company and computer. Now for the interesting story. My best friend in fact works at IBM and lives with another IBMer. Over the last year my friend has come to see the nice features of the Macintosh and decided to buy a Macintosh IIx. Now get this, his house mate (who owns the house they live in) forbid him to bring his Macintosh into the house! Took about intolerance. In fact, he accussed my friend of disloyalty to IBM. Finally, after about two months, he relented and allowed my friend to have his Macintosh in his bed room, but he must not allow people to know that it is there! Now my house mate works at Qume and builds computers in his spare time. In fact we have a Super386 box that he built from scratch for fun and it lives quite nicely in our computer room and coexists on the LAN that we have. He has also bought a Macintosh II recently (we got a real good deal). The interesting thing is that the 386 box sits idle most of the time, while the Macintosh II and the two Macintosh Plus systems get all of the work out. Our friends, all quite capable with computers, and the Cambodian refugee kids that we work with in our spare time love the Macintosh and will use it, if available, to the exclusion of all other computers. An interesting story. What do you and the rest of the world make of it! -- Jordan Mattson UUCP: jordan@apple.apple.com Apple Computer, Inc. CSNET: jordan@apple.CSNET Development Tools Product Management AppleLink: Mattson1 20525 Mariani Avenue, MS 27S Cupertino, CA 95014 408-974-4601 "Joy is the serious business of heaven." C.S. Lewis