From: Blake Wehlage <jwilk@iglou.com>
To: jim bell <cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1996-06-14 09:35:22 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 17:35:22 +0800
From: Blake Wehlage <jwilk@iglou.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 17:35:22 +0800
To: jim bell <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: PBS show
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At 09:35 AM 6/13/96 -0800, jim bell wrote:
>At 10:26 PM 6/12/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote:
>
>>
>But the Apple II WAS a toy! Non-detached keyboard, poor placement of reset
>key, upper-case only, 40-character wide display, odd microprocessor, VERY
>SMALL capacity floppies (which were very slow as well), as well as a hostile
>legal situation regarding the building of clones. Hell, they even objected
>to other companies building boards which plugged into the bus!
I was not a toy it was what started the PC revolution
>I have other, even harsher word for the design of the IBM PC. Oh yes, the
>Mac sucks bigtime as well, although primarily for legal reasons.
>
Mac rule they have an awesome GUI (graphical user interface), easy of use it
way up there and they have bitchin' software.
I know i will regret saying this but:
The mac OS is 3 times better than Windows '95
(Eat that Bill!)
>Jim Bell
>jimbell@pacifier.com
>
>
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