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From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM PC ??  Nahhh ....
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Date: Wed, 17-Dec-86 16:14:16 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 17 16:14:16 1986
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Organization: Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., NY
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Summary: Because it's paid for!


	The original poster asks the rhetorical question: why do some
people still use and buy and IBM-PC.  Now I can't answer why people
still buy them (when many clones are superior), but I can answer why
people still use them:  because it's on my desk and it's paid for.
	A computer is only a tool, and as long as it does what is required,
there is no need to replace it.  Besides, by waiting to the point of
necessity by obsolescence, one gets a better deal, in price, performance,
or both.  
	As for myself, I haven't decided whether to ditch my IBM PC for
an Amiga 5000, a 68020 (no make that a 68030) Open Mac, an Atari 4160, 
an 80486 laptop, or perhaps a Micro-Cray, if you get my drift....
-- 
			      Craig Werner (MD/PhD '91)
				!philabs!aecom!werner
              (1935-14E Eastchester Rd., Bronx NY 10461, 212-931-2517)
		     "I tell you I'm a thief and you call me a liar?"