Re: AppleII to IBM

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Richard Noordhof (RNoordhof@gnn.com) wrote:
: Hello all! I for years have been a Apple II freak, and stayed with them. I 
: have 4 Apple IIe's, 1 laser 128, and 1 Gs. I decided I needed a new computer, 
: So I bought A IBM (Pentium 133). 
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: My point: Having a IBM and a GS Kick butt! But a Mac just 
: lowers the standard, so I will never buy one.

	Dear Mr. Noodhoff,

	Having read your comments, I wish I was there to advise you 
before you bought a computer more modern than the GS.

	Given that you own a GS, presumably with 800K 3 1/2" drives, your 
choice of an Intel box must be a supreme folly. In your case, I am hard 
pressed to understand how you came to think that the Mac "lowers the 
standard".

	I myself have a Mac and a //e (see .sig), with 2 800K drives 
attached to my //e. On the Mac, I have DOS File Exchange (standard with 
MacOS 7.5) which enables the Mac to read and write M$-DOS, OS/2 and 
ProDOS volumes. This way, I transfer data back and forth between the 
machines. It would be harder to do this on an Intel box.

	You repeatedly refer to your new machine as an IBM. Has it got a 
Big Blue name plate on it? If not, your machine has less to do with IBM 
than today's Power Macs, whose PowerPC CPUs have "IBM" printed on them.
Remember that Big Blue and Micro$oft went their separate ways about 7 
years ago, when IBM launched the ill-fated PS/2.

	Therefore, just let me give you friendly advice: Visit your local 
Mac dealer. You should see some new machines and unbeatable value for 
money, if you consider what is built into every new Mac: CD-ROM player, 
Ethernet, SCSI, stereo digital sound etc.. Yes, these days there are Mac 
clones as well!

	Yours sincerely,
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