Re: PC or Mac?

["Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@attglobal.net>]

"Byron Q. Desnoyers Winmill" <wbdesnoy@ucalgary.ca> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.43.0201202023560.50-100000@babbage...
>
> I don't think this 'love [of] his computer' goes as far for the PC as it
> does for Apple.  We are using machines which were designed over fifteen
> years ago!  The same goes for Atari, Commodore, etc. users.  How many
> people use their old XT, or even the software from their old XT, then go
> online to discuss it?  Similarly for classic Macintosh computers: there is
> an active base of users even though much faster machines exist.
>

Well . . .  the present PC world is no different from the Apple II world of
the late 80's. Back about 12 years ago, I was a die-hard Apple II+/IIe user
in a world of GS users who were hugely uninterested in stuff that ran under
ProDOS, let alone DOS 3.3. The vast majority of IIe users would have dumped
their IIe for a GS in a heartbeat if they could have afforded the upgrade,
and I'll wager that the same is true for the majority of today's "classic"
Mac users. (I was different in that I also had a GS but I had more fun with
the IIe, hence my placement on GEnie as the semi-official "8-bit curmudgeon"
among the sysops.)

Wait until the Wintel PC is as obsolete as the Apple II or the Amiga, and
then I think you will see legions of nostalgic PC users trading info about
their XT's and their Pentiums.

Tom Zuchowski