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- From: bcoleman@hayes.com (Bill Coleman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: History was made today...
- Message-ID: <6571.2b345967@hayes.com>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 11:30:47 EDT
- References: <1gon7oINNshk@mirror.digex.com> <parkyn.724609082@sfu.ca>
- Organization: Hayes Microcomputer Products, Norcross, GA
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- In article <parkyn.724609082@sfu.ca>, parkyn@fraser.sfu.ca (Dale Parkyn) writes:
- > hacker@access.digex.com (Dark Hacker) writes:
- >
- >>When the Apple Macintosh was first introduced, IBM derided this computer
- >>as "a toy" claiming that mice were too difficult for users to comprehend
- > *** The original Macintosh was 'useless'. That why it was quickly changed
- > *** to the 512K, 512Ke, Plus. Now you have something that is 'starting'
- > *** to become useful.
-
- The original Macintosh was *NOT* useless. It was, however, just enough
- technology to be usable and reasonably priced. Your current sense of
- computing devices is tainting your recall.
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- The change to the Plus didn't happen that quickly. It took 2 years.
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