Lippard.Multics 1986-05-10 09:46:49 mst Sat
Subject:  Interesting (?) Notes on Micros
Date:  Friday, 9 May 1986 17:37 mst
From:  Paul Dickson <Dickson>
To:  {mbx >udd>m>jjl>misc>misc}

Date:  Thursday, 8 May 1986 10:37 mst
From:  Robert D. Zarcone <rdz%ccird2.uucp at BRL>

These are some lines from last week's "Computer Pursuit" column by Franklynn
Peterson and Judi K-Turkel that I found interesting and thought I would share
with the rest of you.  As a word of warning, please be aware that this article
appeared in our local "Pennysaver" type weekly.

"It seems insane to reduce everything we know about several-thousand-dollar
computers to thumbnail movie-review format.  But it's an insane industry and
the most quoted, saved, reprinted and rebutted column we produced in these
four years did just that.  So here goes an update to clip out and take along
to taunt stores and favorite enemies."

          "Apple IIe:  If Apple II hadn't aimed straight at teachers,
          polishing off the early education market, Apple would have
          been cooked long ago."

          "AT&T 6300:  Do you know anyone who owns one?  We don't.  If
          AT&T hadn't spent millions trying to buy popularity for its
          UNIX baby, it might have had money enough to build computers
          to sell along with the 6300 name."

          "AT&T 7300:  Only Apple has the nerve to try mass-marketing
          computers that aren't IBM PC compatible ... If Alexander
          Graham Bell had these marketing smarts, he would've tried to
          sell the telephone as a new kind of doorbell."

          "IBM AT:  Here's where IBM finally learned how to make a
          really good personal computer.  But the competition learned
          how to make even better ones."

          "The old IBM Portable:  A big blue elephant just pulled off
          the market."

          "The new IBM Portable:  A tiny blue elephant just tossed into
          the fray.  Here IBM carries the "IBM-compatibility" myth to a
          new low, replacing five and 1/4-inch disks now standard on all
          IBM PCs, ATs and compatibles with the three and 1/2-inch variety."

          "Macintosh:  Like outfitting the old VW Bug with automatic
          transmission, power steering, power brakes, air conditioning,
          leather seats, stereo AM/FM radio, tape deck...does it have
          power enough for all that?  Well no ... But some people like
          gadgetry."

          "Panasonic SrPartner:  No partner to ExecPartner.  It's cheapo!
          And smallo.  But there's zero room to expand memory or capability."

          "Texas Instruments BusinessPro:  Too much computer for one person,
          but ostentatious for displaying your wealth."

Comments?  (What a SILLY question!)