Re: Can this marriage be saved? Found wife in bed with a Mac.

[schefflr@news.msus.edu (Bill Scheffler)]

Rocket Press...a Litmag (rocketusa@delphi.com) wrote:
: Apple II Friends:
:  
: My wife had never really taken an interest in the orphaned
: computers I'd bring home. She'd be nice enough to tolerate
: some Laser 128 with missing keycaps or some Apple IIe with
: its guts all over the place sitting in the living room. I'd
: always been a sucker for abandoned stuff - just to see if I
: could get it to be useful again. Then, not having a lot of
: space, I'd sell the thing for some bargain basement price.

	It's fun to fix 'em and see them work again.  I can't stand to 
see any computer (yeah, even a PC) be thrown out into the trash.  Hell, 
all II's can be made useful and a PC can always be used to hold one side 
of the table up. :)

: She had worked with IBMs, being a business person and all.
: These are business machines.  And, of course, she'd always
: seen my Apple II relatives here and there - including my
: pride and joy, souped-up IIgs.

	heh heh...anyone remember the old "Apple vs. PC" arguments.  
Don't buy an Apple...they're a game machine...buy a PC for business.  Now 
it's buy a PC for all the kewl gamezs and buy a Mac if you want to get 
your work done.
  
: You could say she tolerated all the "junk" I brought home.
: And never really took an interest in computers for other
: than business applications and the occasional e-mail.

	You should thank her for being so understanding.  Most girls see 
the mess in my room and run in terror. :)
  
: Then, last week, they were tossing out a perfectly fine Mac
: Plus at work. I worried about bringing it home. I have a
: IIe in the trunk of my car, a IIc I left at a friend's
: house, a Laser 128 in the closet, had just sold a Woz GS -
: along with my trusty IIgs in the living room.  So I was
: worried that the Mac Plus may be the straw that broke the
: camel's back.
:  
: I snuck the thing in at night, but she caught me. But
: instead of being pissed, her eyes lit up. "That's a nice
: looking computer," she said. I was aghast. I told her it
: was free, trying to discourage her eagerness. She then said
: it was "cute."

	When's the last time she's seen the eye doctor? ;)
 
: She had me set it up in the bedroom and she actually liked
: the thing. I took the fax modem off the IIgs and hooked it
: up to it. She can fax with it very fast (unlike with the GS
: and that crappy Faxination program, which never worked with
: my modem) - and it receives crystal clear faxes too.

	Well, hurry out and buy PMPFax for your GS then!  You even get a 
discount (if you hurry) because you own Faxination.  I've heard nothing 
but praise for this program...Faxination is dead and is a worthless 
program (no offense meant to the author...I'm sure he was under a lot of 
pressure to get this thing done "on time" and therefore was rushed).
  
: Then I hooked up the flatbed scanner I'd been trying to do
: a kick-ass job with on the IIgs. It worked great on the
: Mac. Same with the cd rom.

	Your talking about the _Mac Plus_ right?  Gee, the one I have in 
my closet (I got it free - my old high school was going to throw it in 
the trash).  It has one meg of RAM and no hard drive...(I got a SE from 
them with a bad FDHD drive and a good 20 meg hard drive too)...the thing 
sits in my closet because...well...it's a oversized paperweight.
  
: Hell, the Mac Plus maybe even booted a few seconds faster
: than the IIgs with a Focus 120 card. When you clicked a
: document, it was automatically opened up by its program.
: She was impressed.

	Umm, give that baby system 7.5.2 and watch the molasses set in.  
As for the document thing...my GS does that just fine thank you.  Hell, 
it turns a RISC processor into a snail.

: No RGB color I told her. I didn't want to tell her we could
: hook up the IIgs's monitor. I didn't want to tell her that
: she could get graphical internet with this machine.

	RGB monitor on a Mac Plus?  I don't think so.  I don't think you 
want graphical internet on a Mac Plus (looks bad) and it would redefine 
molasses again (imagine using system 7.5.2 and it was twice as slow!).

	Oh and a GS graphical interface to the Internet is almost upon 
us.  No more Mac envy for me.  (Although it will be rough forking out all 
that cash for GNO and the brower, ect.)...still at least someone _made_ it.

: I didn't see what attraction she had to this - to this
: "box."  Next to the IIgs it is an ugly brother, like Danny
: DeVito next to Arnold in "Twins." This Mac Plus with the
: little b&w screen. With the clumsy keyboard that plugs into
: the computer with a phone cord. With a huge block of a
: mouse.

	Well, just be glad she's happy.  I've seen a lot of guys having 
to "chose" between their wife or the computers and most have said goodbye 
to all their neat computer stuff.

: I guess we're keeping it. Or at least she is. :  
: Can this marriage be saved?
:  
: Darren

	Well, if she likes the Mac, good for her.  Personally, I've used 
a PowerMac 7200 and I still prefer my ol' GS for doing day-to-day work.  
It's just more reliable (mac system software is about as bad as Windows 
these days).  Hope the love triangle between you, your wife, and your GS 
works out. ;)