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Re: teaching with computers

#924
From: Tom Brestel
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 04:02
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I must admit that I was very impressed with the Power Macs I saw
demonstrated at a local technology convention.  Just don't let people say
that they will run windows well.  They may run windows, but if you want
to run windows software, get a windows machine, If you want to run Mac
software get a Mac.  The software sells the machine an not vice versa.  I
happen to like WordPerfect for windows because of its equation editing
capability and Quattro Pro spreadsheet for windows for number
chrunching.  The only real power spreadsheet available for the mac is
Excell and I don't like the way it does graphs, its easy, but not very
flexable.  I don't like excell for windows either.

 That, physsharers is my $0.02 worth.  Thanks for hearing (reading) me out.

Tom Brestel  tbrestel@courier.esu11.k12.ne.us

On Sun, 15 Jan 1995, Bob Estes wrote:

> On Jan.15, Tom Brestel wrote:
> "P.S.  I upgraded my 286 Homebuilt clone to a 486 in 20 minutes and $200
> investment.  Just a month ago I upgraded my hard drive to a 250 mb unit
> for another $200.  Try doing that on a Mac."
>
> Obviously there are some price advantages to using PC clones if you're
> the type of person that can (and wants to) trouble-shoot your system.
> Your info about Mac hard drive prices is out of date though. A perusal
> of MacWeek gives me internal Mac drives of 365 mb for $210 and 540 mb
> for $255. Add $60 for external.
>
> Bob Estes
> estes@cfa.harvard.edu
>
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