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Article #659obsolete? so what. Obsolete computers sell.
From: Brian Reid
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 1985 04:04
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 1985 04:04
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The IBM PC was obsolete the day it was announced, but that didn't prevent IBM from selling millions of them. The Mac will in some sense be obsolete in a year or two, but so what? So what that the Mac has about the same functionality as the Xerox Alto had in 1976? That doesn't change its value. The point is, the Mac does what it does very well, it does it cheaply, it generates lots of nice software (have you seen Quartet or ConcertWare?), and lots of people have them. I don't want color; if you gave me a color computer I would sell it and buy a black and white version. I should point out that I also own a 1964 Chevrolet pickup truck. While it is terribly obsolete, somebody borrows it from me almost every weekend because it outperforms their BMW at certain tasks. -- Brian Reid decwrl!glacier!reid Stanford reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site Glacier.ARPA Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utcs!lsuc!pesnta!amdcad!decwrl!Glacier!reid From: reid@Glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: obsolete? so what. Obsolete computers sell. Message-ID: <4150@Glacier.ARPA> Date: Sat, 23-Feb-85 23:04:56 EST Article-I.D.: Glacier.4150 Posted: Sat Feb 23 23:04:56 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 24-Feb-85 14:31:47 EST Distribution: net Organization: Stanford University, Computer Systems Lab Lines: 16