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Re: Micro$loth Windoze 95 Badges - how they should be
- Subject: Re: Micro$loth Windoze 95 Badges - how they should be
- From: jamesm@morinda.it.ntu.edu.au (James McArthur)
- Date: 1995/09/14
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Mark Sandrock (sandrock@aries.scs.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: ken.grey@dial.pipex.com (Ken Grey) writes:
: >Macs are like old 9-track car players. Technically poor and remembered
: >mainly by the over 50's.
: You wish. Looks to me like old Billy Boy's running scared of the coming
: Mac onslaught. Hence all the expensive, shrill Win 95 hype.
: I've seen PC's on the scrapheap, but the old Macs are still in good use.
: The PC with its 640KB barrier was truly the computing counterpart of the
: 9-track tape drive. Talk about kludges. Thanks for the apt analogy.
The oncoming Mac onslaught is only to counteract the Amiga now that it has
risen from the dead.
It looks like all of this marketing hype is because Apple and MS know that
the Amiga is back, and here to stay..
Gee, I bet you lot are glad that this wasnt posted to an Atari newsgroup -
imagine all of those fanatics having this discussion :^)