Neanderpundit

Saturday 12 Apr 2008

Mactards eat it again.

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2 Responses to “Mactards eat it again.”

1. on 12 Apr 2008 at 2:10 pm   Rivrdog
   
   

   They’re ALL insane, all the freeqs.

   I’m writing this comment on a 4 1/2 year-old P4M laptop which still has an (operable) Floppy disc drive in it! No one in my family has a dual or quad-core processor driven computer yet, and we all use our computers every day, for lots of tasks.

   I could probably still get by on my original computer, an 8086 Intel with a math co-processor.

   But, I can still do my math on paper with a pencil, as I was taught to in 1950.

   Come the Iranian nuclear weapons completion and EMP bombardment of the world, we will ALL be back to pushing that pencil.

2. on 12 Apr 2008 at 5:08 pm   Grumpy Old Ham
   
   

   Rivrdog speaks the truth. That’s why I have a complete KWM-2A setup ratholed away, just in case.

   As far as the linked article goes, this quote sums it up nicely:

   “Macintosh was number one in the fields dominated by people who didn’t want to have to use a computer in the first place: Artists, musicians, educators, writers… in short, hippies.”

   And let’s not forget “the Woz” and his Woodstock-like “Us” concerts back in the ’80s.

   Small wonder the Mac crowd has always had an uphill battle to be considered a serious business machine, and why they thought giving free ones to those bastions of conservative thought known as “publick skools” would turn the tide…not!

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