Re: Apple II vs Atari 800

[scott@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us (Scott Alfter)]

In article <585bacd2-8456-468b-9a63-800104b1a5c0@24g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
winston19842005@yahoo.com <winston19842005@yahoo.com> wrote:
>On Apr 21, 1:42 pm, sc...@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us (Scott Alfter)
>wrote:
>> (WTF is it with other 8-bitters coming in here and trash-talking everybody
>> and everything in sight lately?  First it was the Aztec C vs. cc65 thread
>> instigated by a Commodore user; now it's this.  I would've thought the Apple
>> vs. Atari vs. Commodore "wars" were long since ended, and not in anyone's
>> favor.  I could make reference to my posting history in comp.sys.apple2, but
>> I have better things to do with my time than to get sucked into a Usenet
>> d*ck-size contest.)
>
>I used to subscribe to comp.sys.atari.8bit, until I was basically
>jumped by them just for voicing an opinion.
>I much prefer the Apple crowd, even though the computer that shares my
>desktop with my Mac is a TI-99.

Funny that you'd bring up the TI-99/4A, as discussion around those (mostly
on a Yahoo mailing list, not so much on Usenet) also tends to stay fairly
civil IME.

(One of those was my first computer.  With only 16K, no printer, no disk,
and an expensive upgrade path to get to those, it was sidelined after a
couple of years by a better-equipped IIe.  I no longer have my original
99/4A, but I picked one up cheap on eBay a few years ago, along with a PEB
with a floppy drive, serial port, and 32K RAM expansion.  It's set up on one
desk, and my stealth IIGS (upgraded from the aforementioned IIe) is set up
next to it on another desk.)

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