Re: Mark's website www.appleiiguy.net

[dave <dave@icom.net>]

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:16:29 GMT, "Sean Fahey" <a2fan@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>"Scott" <scottm9000@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> This might be going off on a tangent but does anyone else aside from me
>> think that computers just aren't as much fun now as they were in the 80's?
>> It was just great to play around and actually have fun with all the old
>> 8-bits. Still have about 25 of them around here. All kinds and love
>> learning the ins and outs of all of them.
>
>I work as a sysadmin on UNIX and Windows machines every day. It's not fun
>anymore - it's actually tedious.

No more "tedious" than any other platforms.  IMO MacOS X is the most
tedious due to its lack of functionality.

> At home, I prefer to use a Mac because it
>just works, and because it's not Windows, it doesn't drag me back to the
>crap I deal with at work... so, it relieves stress when I want to get
>something done.

Typical "Pro-Apple" propaganda.

Windows and Unix aren't "crap".  You obviously know nothing about
evaluating and optimisng such platforms for effective use.

I'm speaking from a Network Administrator's perspective.  I'm sick and
tired of people spouting misinformation about Windows and Unix
systems.  Both OS platforms are portable, scalable and fault-tolerant
when properly deployed and maintained.  Mac systems on the other hand,
whilst still acceptable, lack some serious core functionality and
application support issues.

>When I want to have fun though, serious geek-out fun, I head down to my
>basement office and play with the Apple II stuff. It's why I go to KFest for
>vacation instead of somewhere else.

It may be "fun" playing with old 8-bit games/apps as such but one
get's bored pretty quickly with the arcane graphics, slow processing
speeds and awkward disk subsystems.