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Article #7533Re: More: Amiga vs the Mac
From: Carolyn Scheppner
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1986 00:07
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1986 00:07
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In article <1460004@hpcnoe.UUCP> dec@hpcnoe.UUCP (Danny Cecil) writes:
>/ hpcnoe:net.micro.mac / carolyn@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner) /
6:33 pm Sep 26, 1986 /
>In article <855@navajo.STANFORD.EDU> ali@navajo.ARPA (Ali Ozer) writes:
>>[]
>>Just this morning I was talking to someone, a Mac user. I mentioned
>>the Amiga, and the person said "oh, what an awful machine." I said,
>>"really, what don't you like about it?" His reply was "oh the characters
>>are so big and ugly." I asked him when and for how long he used one,
>>and his reply was that he saw it recently at a dealer's window...
>
> Tell him the characters are tiny and cute on a 9 inch screen.
^
(My Remark)
This is in response to some email I received from an Apple employee.
He feels I "owe the readers of net.micro.mac an apology" for what
he calls an "unprofessional" "petty" "spiteful" remark.
Well, I will apologize for not realizing the original article was
cross-posted. I am not in the habit of cross-posting.
As for "unprofessional", perhaps it was unprofessional to get sucked
into the my-machine-versus-your-machine stuff. I was trying to wade
through it, hoping it would stop so I wouldn't have to capital K it.
But that "big and ugly" comment grabbed me.
I don't know how to address "petty" and "spiteful" other than to say
that these colorful adjectives made reading email a whole new experience.
I hope that no one else interpreted my remark this way. It was meant to
be a comment on some of the unfair comparisons of the two machines.
I still think our characters could compete for cuteness if viewed
on the same size screen.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!rutgers!sri-spam!sri-unix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!burdvax!bpa!cbmvax!carolyn From: carolyn@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: More: Amiga vs the Mac Message-ID: <864@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Oct-86 20:07:32 EDT Article-I.D.: cbmvax.864 Posted: Wed Oct 8 20:07:32 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Oct-86 23:56:51 EDT References: <855@navajo.STANFORD.EDU> <1460004@hpcnoe.UUCP> Reply-To: carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 48