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Dear Michael -

	An interesting observation that I would like to continue.  Living
here in Silicon Valley, I find that many of my friends work for a number 
the various companies in the valley.  I have friends that work at Sun,
HP, Qume, Apple, Rolm, and, gasp!, IBM.  And we have our joking fights about
my company and computer is better than your company and computer.  Now for
the interesting story.
	My best friend in fact works at IBM and lives with another IBMer.
Over the last year my friend has come to see the nice features of the 
Macintosh and decided to buy a Macintosh IIx.  Now get this, his house
mate (who owns the house they live in) forbid him to bring his Macintosh
into the house!  Took about intolerance.  In fact, he accussed my friend
of disloyalty to IBM.  Finally, after about two months, he relented and
allowed my friend to have his Macintosh in his bed room, but he must not
allow people to know that it is there!
	Now my house mate works at Qume and builds computers in his spare
time.  In fact we have a Super386 box that he built from scratch for fun
and it lives quite nicely in our computer room and coexists on the LAN 
that we have.  He has also bought a Macintosh II recently (we got a real
good deal).  The interesting thing is that the 386 box sits idle most of
the time, while the Macintosh II and the two Macintosh Plus systems get
all of the work out.  Our friends, all quite capable with computers, and
the Cambodian refugee kids that we work with in our spare time love the
Macintosh and will use it, if available, to the exclusion of all other
computers.

	An interesting story.  What do  you and the rest of the world make
of it!


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