Re: Apple Computer, What Are You Up To?

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net> wrote:

>Mike Kent <Mkent01@galileo.cris.com> wrote:
>
>:> : But why do you think this is an either/or decision?  What I think
>>:> : Supertimer is trying to say -- and what I know I am -- is that
maintaining
>:> : backwards compatibility allows users to upgrade at their own pace and
>:> : their own budget, not Apple's.
>
>:> While forcing needless complexity on everyone? And, as has been pointed
out,
>:> you can use SCSI cards, USB to serial converters, and ethernet to localtalk
>:> converters to get the same thing.
>
>: Who's talking about forcing needless complexity on everyone here?  I'm
>: talking about taking my existing peripherals and plugging them into my new
>: CPU exactly the way they were plugged into my old one.  You're talking
>: about my having to buy -- at an additional expense -- "SCSI cards, USB to
>: serial converters, and ethernet to localtalk converters to get the same
>: thing."  Sounds like Apple is the one forcing needless complexity on
>: everyone with its lack of upgrade policy.
>
>It seems funny how people talk about Windows boxes, which need expansion cards
>for SCSI, ethernet, audio and video, yada yada

All the Windows boxes I've seen marketed in the last decade have
parallel, serial, and keyboard/mouse, and video ports on the motherboard.
Mine does.  It also integrated IDE and floppy drive controllers.