Re: Apple, IBM and PCs (Re: Apple, Jobs, and the irony of it)

[Gregory Weston <gwestonREMOVE@CAPSattbi.com>]

In article <K_2dndeOx4i2uH6iRVn-jw@comcast.com>,
 "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:

> "Gregory Weston" <gwestonREMOVE@CAPSattbi.com> wrote in message
> gwestonREMOVE-9346A8.08543919122003@netnews.attbi.com">news:gwestonREMOVE-9346A8.08543919122003@netnews.attbi.com...
> : In article <KO6dnfqUrf-hf3yiRVn-jg@comcast.com>,
> :  "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:
> :
> : > : 2. IBM did target the home market. Several times. The first
> was
> : > : with the PCjr. What a success that was. The second was with
> the
> : > : PS/2 models 25 and 30. Third was with the PS/1 line of
> machines
> : > : (I bought one of those new,) then the Aptiva.
> : >
> : > Again, those machines, short of the Jr, were ALL targetting
> : > the business market. I should know. I freaking used them,
> : > AT WORK.
> :
> : And my company has a G3 iMac as a production machine, but
> that's not the
> 
> "YOUR" company?, or the company you work for?
> This is an important distinction since wording
> has a lot to do with our disagreements in CSA2.
> How one speaks and how another hears is certainly
> an issue that can't be ignored. Language is very
> garbled in this day and age, and many do not even
> understand their own main language, which in many
> cases here, is English.

Fair enough. The company which employs me, in addition to a few hundred 
other people, and provides service and software to one of the financial 
industries in a significant chunk of the U.S. Amid a very large and 
hetergenous set of machines is a single Mac: an iMac 600 bought when it 
was the low-end model a couple of years ago and used as a critical part 
of our production environment.

And whether I meant a company I owned or worked for really doesn't 
change the point; you're just deflecting. The G3 iMac, like the Aptiva 
and PS/1, may very well be a useful (and even used) machine in the 
business world, but all three of those product lines were very 
definitely marketed primarily to the home user.