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Article #924Re: teaching with computers
From: Tom Brestel
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 04:02
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 Your info about Mac hard drive prices is out of date though.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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 16cfd8,ee6baf50361604c6 X-Google-Attributes: gid16cfd8,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-01-17 20:02:12 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!auvm!COURIER.ESU11.K12.NE.US!tbrestel Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU Newsgroups: bit.listserv.physhare Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <Pine.3.87.9501172212.A24454-0100000@courier.esu11.k12.ne.us> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 22:02:12 -0600 Sender: Sharing resources for high school physics <PHYSHARE@PSUVM.PSU.EDU> From: Tom Brestel <tbrestel@COURIER.ESU11.K12.NE.US> Subject: Re: teaching with computers In-Reply-To: <9501160313.AA18202@courier.esu11.k12.ne.us> Lines: 30