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- From: isr@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Michael S. Schechter - ISR group account)
- Subject: Re: Farewell to the Mac? (not flame)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.111234.27344@newstand.syr.edu>
- Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
- References: <1992Nov18.081023.215@physc1.byu.edu> <1992Nov18.213527.2511@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 11:12:34 EST
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- In article <1992Nov18.213527.2511@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov18.081023.215@physc1.byu.edu> seth@physc1.byu.edu writes:
- ...
- >I'm here doing Engineering.
- >1. The quickness with which Apple comes out with new models. Ex: PB 145.
- > Its obsolete now. Come Jan more models are coming out. What if a
- Well, I don't know what they teach you in THAT engineering school, but
- in most of 'em, "Obsolete" has NOTHING to do with no longer for sale.
- Say, for example, GM no longer offers, say, T-tops, in a particular model
- Say that you have the model with t-tops from last year..
- Does that make your car obsolete? You can still get parts, still get it
- serviced, it still works fine, still uses the same gas, and you can get all
- sorts of after-market goodies.
-
- Well, it sounds an awful lot like the situation with the 145.
-
- I don't consider my car obsolete,and I don't consider the 145 obsolete.
- For that matter, the SE isn't obsolete either.
- dated, yes. antique? yes. obsolete? no.
-
- Mike Shechter
- Realist.
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