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Article #630Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]
From: Dan Pop
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 22:50
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 22:50
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In <nevin-0608950402400001@mac-nevin.cs.arizona.edu> nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nevin ":-]" Liber) writes: >In article <DCr96v.3LG@wombat.hanse.de>, root@wombat.hanse.de (Bernd >"Bernie" Meyer) wrote: > >> That is utter nonsense. You obviously have never introduced a newbie to the >> world of computers. They know TYPEWRITERS, so they sometimes even type a >> newline at the end of each line. > >Even that isn't true anymore. How many typewriter companies are still in >business? > Who cares? Today, there are orders of magnitude more typewriter users than Mac users. And more typewriters are sold every day than Mac's. They're one order of magnitude cheaper and don't become obsolete with the same speed as the Mac's do. A 30 years old typewriter is still perfectly usable. Can you say the same about a 10 years old Mac? In the US, there are only three car companies still in business. Shall we conclude that this industry was far better off 50 years ago, when there were a lot more companies? Dan -- Dan Pop CERN, CN Division Email: Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!CERN.ch!rscernix!danpop From: Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) Subject: Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?] X-Nntp-Posting-Host: ues5.cern.ch Message-ID: <danpop.807749451@rscernix> Sender: news@news.cern.ch (USENET News System) Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #9 (NOV) References: <3uodl4$359@decaxp.harvard.edu> <hotelca-3107950002570001@192.0.2.1> <3vjiof$b1s@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <hotelca-0108950349310001@192.0.2.1> <3vlv30INN26h@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <hotelca-0208950026390001@192.0.2.1> <DCr96v.3LG@wombat.hanse.de> <nevin-0608950402400001@mac-nevin.cs.arizona.edu> Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1995 22:50:51 GMT