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From: ward@hao.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Macintosh -- The Computer for the Rich of Us
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Date: Sun, 7-Oct-84 18:47:30 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct  7 18:47:30 1984
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> I am fed up with reading this on the net:
> 	"I feel like a fool for spending xxx on yyy because it does not do zzz."
> Would these people please just admit to themselves that they did a foolish thing

Sounds like you're asking people to do what you're tired of hearing
them do.
> buying yyy, sell it for 50% xxx and figure out what they really want yyy to do.
You'd make a great economist.

> I can't believe how many people think of Apple as a religious patriarchy.
> They are a computer company.

And a very greedy one, at that.

-- 
Michael Ward, NCAR/SCD
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