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Article #450Re: Consumer Reports on Mac
From: cs2532aa
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 1985 09:24
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 1985 09:24
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>> The latest (january 1985) issue of Consumer Reports discusses the Macintosh
>> ... Below is an excerpt from their
>> "Recommendations" section, jsut to let you know what they think about it.
>>
>> ... We prefer it
>> to the IBM family for those who do not require that old family tie.
>
>...and for people who don't require a decent selection of software, or
>speed in starting or leaving applications, or color, or a good native
>development environment, or ...
>--
>D Gary Grady
>USENET: {seismo,decvax,ihnp4,akgua,etc.}!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary
Well, if we're going to start this argument again, we could always talk
about the //c or 128K //e, each of which has 16-color capability and over
five times the software available for anything IBM puts out, and gee, with
the //c you don't even have to buy any esoteric extra garbage to use the
stuff! :-)
Happy Days,
.rne.
"Who 'ya gonna call?"
"BLUE BUSTERS!"
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unm-cvax.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!lanl!unmvax!unm-cvax!cs2532aa From: cs2532aa@unm-cvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Consumer Reports on Mac Message-ID: <153@unm-cvax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 20-Jan-85 04:24:50 EST Article-I.D.: unm-cvax.153 Posted: Sun Jan 20 04:24:50 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 23-Jan-85 05:43:14 EST Reply-To: cs2532aa@unm-cvax.UUCP (Ernie Longmire) Organization: Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque Lines: 26