Re: PC or Mac?

[TheFlash@fast.net (Barry Allen)]

In article <%qi28.348$On3.7827@localhost>, tturner@ecn.ab.ca () wrote:


> --> Then we must be reading different threads - because most of the
>     responses I saw prior to my chiming in, were similar to mine,
>     just `nicer'.  Whatever the case - you're right about some things:
>     there'll _ALWAYS_ be those who post off topic and there'll always
>     be those who would've known better, if they'd simply looked for a
>     MAC newsgroup, instead of an APPLE 2 newsgroup.  I still find it
>     hard to understand - even with those who don't know the Apple 2
>     history (which tends to be most people, nowadays) - why the hell
>     they do a quick search on the text string `APPLE'; instead of on
>     'MAC'.  But that's life.  You and I will probably be best off
>     agreeing to disagree.  :->


Great.

The world would be no fun and a very boring place if there wasn't a
parallax view. There would also be "no Innovation" (oops, did I just say
the Microsoft phrase?) of technology today.

Our discussion originates in an *Apple T-W-O* group (clarification for the
casual poster).  (g)

That means, at some level we have common ground. You have a very nice
collection of old II stuff. Good for you. It's lotsa fun. 

I have 3 IIGSs and lots of spare parts, a very nice IIe, a IIc (scattered
randomly around a certain room that I hope finds it's way back together
before Spring), many assorted BSD boxes and many old and very new
Macintoshes. I even have a Win 95 box I walk by and throw things at now and
then. (kidding)

I'm no friend of Microsoft or of Windows in any of it's myriad flavors, and
I make no bones about it. I have to put up with it from time to time with
clients, but I'm my own boss, and hence get to use the computer(s) of my
own choosing instead of suffering the whims of some stodgy, corporate
MIS/IT wonk.

That said, *many* people don't like the Mac and sight solid reasons for it,
and that's cool as well. To each his own, but this isn't the correct forum
to debate it in.  As you said we can agree to disagree. But that doesn't
stop us from exchanging info and experiences about the world of the Apple
II.

I say we set our differences aside and talk "//".

What say ye?

Barry Allen