You guys will appreciate this...

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

...even if no one I work with does...

I have two computers sitting on my desk.  One is a 40MHz 80486 machine
running Windoze '95 (very slowly.  Windoze because that's what I tend to
do while I wait for the damn thing).  On it, I have Telnet, FTP, Netscape
3.01, and a really cute roller coaster screen saver.

The other computer is a ROM 01 Apple IIgs.  It's got 1.25Mb of memory, a
20Mb Focus, and it runs AppleWorks, Teach, GraphicWriter III...heck, if
the thing had more memory, I'd be running HyperCard.  I'm hooked up via
AppleTalk to a Macintosh IIcx at the other end of the office and an HP
DeskJet 1600C (Postscript!  AppleTalk!).  I mostly have the Mac hooked up
because I can do it, and because it gives me an easy way to get files from
the PC to the GS.

Anyway, I handle all the "traditional" media for a mid-size University. 
The IIgs keeps track of the equipment inventory, and prints up any forms I
need.  Eventually, I'll also use it for tracking maintenance and equipment
circulation.  Meanwhile, the Wintel box plays Netscape.  Why?  Because the
GS is a lousy Web browser, and I have yet to see a decent database on the
PC that did what I need it to do the way I need to do it.  And for
designing forms and such, GraphicWriter is a lot simpler (not to mention
cheaper) than PageMaker.

In my book, this is called "appropriate application of computer technology."

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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