Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site hao.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!hogpc!houti!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hao!ward From: ward@hao.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.apple Subject: Re: Macintosh -- The Computer for the Rich of Us Message-ID: <1194@hao.UUCP> Date: Sun, 7-Oct-84 18:47:30 EDT Article-I.D.: hao.1194 Posted: Sun Oct 7 18:47:30 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Oct-84 03:00:45 EDT References: <12552@sri-arpa.UUCP> <1216@eagle.UUCP> Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 20 > 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 UUCP: {hplabs,nbires,brl-bmd,seismo,menlo70,stcvax}!hao!ward ARPA: hplabs!hao!sa!ward@Berkeley BELL: 303-497-1252 USPS: POB 3000, Boulder, CO 80307