Re: Apple ///?

[pubpc1@library.ucla.edu]

pdueck@pli.mb.ca (Perry Dueck) wrote,
in response to my reply:
>> Yes, that's me.  Here's the article again.
>
>Hmmmm...that's funny, I thought your rant the last time was the last rant
>you would post in regards to the PC vs. Mac argument in this newsgroup
>(as I seem to remember you claiming).....seems like YOU ARE the one
>instigating this PC vs. Mac thread in this newsgroup....among other
>things...
>
>Scott G. (pubpc@library.ucla.edu), grow up.

Perry, what IS your problem?  I don't recall you posting anything
else except to flame me.

I only reposted that article because someone requested it.  I noticed
that you conveniently left that out of your quote.  There is no need
to explode.


>> It is true that I never used a VIC-20, but I was just extrapolating
>> based on what I knew about every other Commodore computer I used.
>
>Then, you don't know a whole lot....

I only claim to know what I know.  I don't claim to know everything.


>> When I learned BASIC on CBM and PET computers, someone brought in
>> their C64 disk with a BASIC poker card game.  It loaded right up
>> into the CBM machines and ran.  Much later, I snapped a 1541 drive
>> into a Commodore Plus 4 and used my old BASIC programs just fine.
>> Now if I underestimated the amount of commercial machine language
>> programs for the VIC-20, then I'm sorry.
>
>Apologize to everyone who actually knows something about the history
>of computers.

Why are you trying to provoke me?  Could it be that YOU are the
one trying to start a flame war?  I do not see the problem with
posting ones own experiences.  If I'm wrong, then I'll pick up
the correct history as I go along.


>> None.  I'm only human and my experience with the (non-Amiga) C=
>> computers were mostly with BASIC.
>
>Then why do you proclaim to know everything about Gommodore history,
>as you did in a previous post?

WHERE did I proclaim that?  I just posted what I knew.  If you
thought I was wrong, you could have posted the correct version.
There is no need to lace your replies with personal attacks.


>> I don't blame you for getting mad though.  If someone came into
>> csa2 and said "the Apple ][ was only a 16K machine and all programs
>> were in BASIC," I'd want to correct them too.  :)
>
>For f*ck sakes, I'm not mad. It's just that you came in here declaring
>that you know all the facts, when in fact, you don't.

I never said I knew all the facts.  It sure sounds like you are
mad, though.


>> You have to ask the people who brought Mac and PC into the thread.
>> Personally, if we must discuss other computers, I'd rather they be
>> Commodores, which have a close history with Apple II computers.
>
>Then go discuss it in the comp.sys.cbm  newsgroup. This is
>comp.sys.apple2 which is unrelated to commodore machines.
>
>Regards, Perry Dueck

Perry, when I did bring in Commodore machines, I related them to
Apple II computers.  If you are going to talk about how Apple
trashed the GS, you pretty much have to compare it to their
treatment of the Mac.  When you compare the Mac and the GS,
it is perfectly valid to bring the Amiga into the picture in order
to compare the merits of each machine.

Also, when you discuss the Ensoniq, it is perfectly valid to
bring in the C64 and its SID chip because the designers of the
SID went on and founded Ensoniq, which made the 32-oscillator
Ensoniq DOC wavetable synthesis chip in the GS.

If you read the two post which I talked about Commodore computers,
you will find that I related them to the Apple II.

However, I am not going to respond to your flames anymore.

-Scott G.