Re: Apple advertisement

[NOSPAM***bjbear@ibm.net (B.J. Major & Dennis J. Gorin)]

In article <5ethin$c86$1@darla.visi.com>, nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote:

> In article
<NOSPAM***bjbear-ya023680002402971728280001@news-s01.ca.us.ibm.net>,
> B.J. Major & Dennis J. Gorin <NOSPAM***bjbear@ibm.net> wrote:
> >While PCs may have come a
> >long way since then, Macs on the other hand, at least since 1985-86 when
> >the Mac Plus debuted--has had a SCSI port for full expansion of 7
> >devices--all of which could include external CD ROM drives and other
> >multimedia devices.  Which again proves that Apple was first in yet another
> >area.  
> 
>    Really, now. No other computer had SCSI or a CDROM whatsoever
> before Apple boldly paved the way into the far-reaching unknown and
> brought enlightenment to the downtrodden huddled masses of the world.
> <Cough, gag, spit... can't keep the sarcasm up for that long> SCSI,
> CD-ROMs, GUIs, etc all existed a long time before Macs got their hands
> on them. To go out and claim that Macs are the reason for their
> existence is a load of hype and propaganda at best.

Go back and reread my post.  I never said that Apple invented these things. 
I know full well the Xerox Parc storyline.  But Apple was the FIRST to
bring these things to computers for sale on the mass market.  I didn't see
IBM PCs do anything like that (they didn't even have mice until the
Macintosh came out...)

> 
>    Macs weren't first with color displays or to be an almost
> unexpandable box with only 128K, but the Macheads try and write that
> off as "we grew out of that." Admit that you've had a bunch of
> unfortunate design mistakes if you're going to try and hype your own
> features by putting down other computer's problems. 

I never mentioned color monitors or the lack of them, so this remark of
yours comes out of left field, totally.  While we're on the subject of
color, what about the "green screens" that IBM pcs had for years???

> 
> >It never ceases to amaze me that PC owners continually scoff at the Mac,
> >only to be so short sighted not to realize that their own computer would
> >not be what it is today if it were not for the Mac.
> 
>    Nah, it never ceases me to amaze me how far up their posterior
> certain Mac dorks have their heads. To them, brown matter, gray
> matter, it's all the same--- gotta be too much time in front of those
> 9" monochrome monitors.

If you can't come up with a better retort than THIS you have lost your argument.

(other irrelevant stuff that I never mentioned deleted at this point....)

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