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- Subject: Re: Farewell to the Mac? (not flame)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.081023.215@physc1.byu.edu>
- From: seth@physc1.byu.edu
- Date: 18 Nov 92 08:10:23 -0700
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Brigham Young University
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- In reference to the question of whether Mac people will feel "betrayed" by the
- transition, I say most heartily NO! I say that if someone bought an Apple II+
- or whatever 12 years ago, they ought to be GRATEFUL that they got those 12
- years of use out of it and GET ON WITH THEIR LIVES!! I started computing on a
- DEC PDT-11/150 my dad had bought (he worked for DEC). It had 2 8" floppies, and
- used a vt-52 for a terminal and an LA-36 for a printer. We later sold this and
- got an Atari 400. Meanwhile, my school got Apple II+ and Commodore 64's. I
- learned how to use them all, and got my first exposure to programming them all
- in BASIC. Am I sad that they went away and I am "stuck" with my IIsi now?
- HELL NO!!! That's progress! I enjoyed using these machines while they were in
- their prime, but face it, they are now archaic, outdated dinosaurs! My dad
- actually still has the Atari 800 we upgraded to after a year or so with the
- 400. He actually still uses it for word processing and a spreadsheet for
- personal uses. When I (seldom) go back to Massachusetts to visit I spend hours
- playing games on that Atari 800, and hardly get any sleep. But hey, progress is
- progress, and I don't regret any of it. One thing, though. If those Apple II
- people are feeling betrayed by Apple, I have a question. Did they just buy
- their Apple II in the last two or three years? If so, then what they are
- feeling is angry at themselves for being so BLIND that they bought an old,
- hardly-supported-at-all-anymore design from yesteryear. What I can't believe
- is that Apple still sold them by the thousands to school districts and such. I
- think that Apple should have stopped selling them a LONG time ago, and got
- people to make the change to the mac. Then maybe so many people wouldn't be
- feeling betrayed right now. But like I said, if you bought your machine 12
- years ago then YOU GOT YOUR MONEY'S WORTH, now MOVE ON!
-
- -Seth
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