Re: [Q] Why Apple2 when we have PC?

[gtolar@blkbox.com (Glynne Tolar)]

John Donald Baker (jdb8042@tam2000.tamu.edu) wrote:
: I've hated Macs <spit> with a passion since I first saw one.  The damned
: GUI just serves to get in my way and prohibits me from using my own mind.
: I swear I feel my I.Q. dropping the closer I get to one of these brain eaters!

Here Here!  I just loved this post.  I almost hirt myself laughing.  This 
is the way I've felt about most all GUI!  The Mac <spit> OS ought to 
start up saying "You're an idiot!"

: The PClone's only saving grace is that OS/2 is shipping.  Windoze has been
: a joke from the beginning, but only Bill the Gates is laughing.  Unfortunately,
: the resources required to run anything on a PClone are always inadequate by
: last week.

Eeek!  OS/2!  I helped a friend solve an OS/2 problem once.  Granted I'd 
never user OS/2 before but was overwhelmed by it not so easy setup.  
Admittedly this was 2.1 so maybe it has improved since then.  Windows 
ain't bad enev though there are some things about it that get on my 
nerves.  I get use to it.  Also I know a person beta testing Windows 95 
and he likes it.  Now he is a picky guy so if he likes it it must be an
improvement.  Not to mention NT and Linux as other alturnatives to OS 
for this changing computer world.  I know you hate Micro$oft.  Huh!  I had
a friend at church who swore to kick Micro$oft out of the company he 
worked at.  Recently he had to admit he had to start using Windows.  <snicker>
Just to mention PowerPC, as some on another news group put it, "It's 
still a Mac!" <spit>

: Apple ]['s and CP/M machines have always represented elegant solutions to me.
: The limited resources of the machines require skill and cleverness to squeeze
: phenomenal functionality into the software--skill and cleverness that has all
: but disappeared in today's bloated resource-hogging PClone/Mac <spit> software.

Oh so very true!  What we can accomplish in 256k (64k in older versions) 
of RAM for AppleWorks takes 4megs. on many other machines.

: Apple ][ machines are still viable computing platforms, even today.  It
: just depends on what really need to do.  I may end up getting some kind
: of PClone, but it will be a notebook machine running OS/2--simply because
: I want the portability.  For all the real work I'll continue to use my
: Apple ]['s, CP/M boxes and my Amigas.

Oh I've been toying with the idea of getting a PC clone of some sort.  
But at the moment I have no money so I play with my mother's 486/33 color 
notebook.  I like the idea of a notebook BUT for what I'd want on the 
inside I'm better off with a desktop!

Even when I get a new "PC" I plan to still use my GS.  Heck, now when I 
download PC stoff for the 486 I use ProTERM on my GS and then transfer 
the file at 57600 to the PC.  Sounds like the hard way but I've found no 
PC comm software that is as easy to use and as powerful as ProTERM!  
Telemate is the closestand it ain't that close.