Re: Why own an apple2?

[wsmith@NOSPAM.ctron.com (Will Smith)]

On Wed, 17 Jun 1998 02:14:03 -0700, Chad Choi Lin
<chadlin@nyetcom.com> wrote:

|>Reason #6: You want a computer system that works, yet no one in their
|>right mind would steal.

hehehehehe....

|>     This (and the fact that we are always strapped for cash) is why our
|>college radio station got an Apple //c. Earlier this year we had a
|>heartbreaking incident in which some dirty so-and-so broke into the 486
|>PC machine sitting in the lobby and stole the Ethernet card that
|>connected it to the local university network -- and damaged the computer
|>in the process. 

that's a drag, dude.  did they find the culprit?

|>Our //c is immune to such a problem because a) it has no
|>expansion slots, so there are no cards that can be stolen, and b) IT
|>DOESN'T WORK WITH IBM OR MAC STUFF. You can't run Windows on it, you'll
|>never be able to put Macintosh software into it, 

don't be surprised, with the state of kids today, if some dolt tried
to put Mac stuff on it ANYWAY...  ("whaddya MEAN it doesn't run Mac
software?!?  it's got an Apple logo on it!"  i hear this every once in
a while when i talk about my //gs....  <sigh>)

|>so why on earth would you steal it?

that's a question we should never ask.  it just invites trouble...  ;)

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