Re: Apple advertisement

[cheer@i.hate.spam (Christopher D. Heer)]

It was 26 Feb 1997 17:29:44 GMT.  I was reading instead of working.  And P 
Dueck <noemail@no.email.edu> said:

>I previously wrote:

>> >I just acquired an Apple //e
>> >system. Nothing beats an 8 bit and/or 16 bit Apple II computer.

>In response to what I wrote, (Christopher D. Heer) wrote:

>> Well, I think realism is required here.
>> The trick is to not become a zealot, and to acknowledge
>> the benefits and weaknesses of any system.

>Well, I thought I was dealing with reality when I said that. In my
>opinion, nothing beats an Apple II. 

Ah, ok.  Clearly I misunderstood; I assumed (yeah, yeah, we all know the joke) 
that when you said "Nothing beats. . . " you weren't referring to your opinion 
but making a factual comment.  Since, in any objective category you'd care to 
name, more modern computers *do*, in fact, beat an Apple II, I made the 
"realism" remark.

The zealot comment wasn't aimed at you at all, but at the small (and vocal) 
"An-Apple-II-can-do-anything-a-Mac-or-PC-can-do-and-its-only-idiots-that-spend-
that-much-on-those-horrid-things-anyways" crowd.

>I wouldn't call myself a zealot just
>because I really like the Apple II platform. 

Me neither.  And I really like it too, so there you go.

>Sure, I'm enthusiastic about the Apple II. If that's a crime, then I'm
>guilty. Then again, this newsgroup is about the Apple II and most of us
>reading it and posting here are enthusiastic about the Apple II. As such,
>most posts in this group are about the benefits of this particular
>computer. I don't see anything positive coming from sitting around and
>complaining about "my apple 2 can't do this and it can't do that, boo
>hoo." 

Surely there's some middle ground, yes?  Between thinking the Apple ][+ was the 
be-all and end-all of computers and whining that it can't do a thing?
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