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- From: ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Macs cost too much (NOT!)
- Message-ID: <92211.161803ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 14:18:03 GMT
- References: <920541.2A74E391@cmhgate.fidonet.org> <14878@claris.com>
- Organization: KFA Forschungszentrum Juelich
- Lines: 28
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- In article <14878@claris.com>, mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner) says:
- >
- >In article <920541.2A74E391@cmhgate.fidonet.org>,
- >Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes:
- >>
- >> mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner) writes:
- >>
- >> > deal. At home nobody pays me but I have to pay the computer. So for me the>
- >> 386 is the better deal. Were is the problem?
- >> MS> IOW, your time is valuable to your boss, but not worth much
- >> MS> to you, right?
- >>
- >> I think he means that he doesn't mind doing the work necessary to get a 386
- >> box running, much in the same way that many people don't mind grabbing a
- >> wrench and fixing up the family car, or fixing their own plumbing or
- >> electrical problems, etc., etc. Whereas the boss would just call in an
- >> electrician (or other specialist), the guy at home generally rolls his own,
- >> usually for lack of hard cash to do it otherwise.
- >
- >Your analogy breaks down, Adam; with the Mac, the boss doesn't have to call
- >in an specialist--except in very unusual circumstances.
-
- The innermost reference is one of my posts and Adams explanation of what I
- meant is absolutely correct (and in better english :-)).
- Granted the boss probably doesn`t need to call in the specialist, but he has
- to pay him at the apple dealer`s counter.
-
- Michael Bode.
-