Mac vs PC

[John Ferrell]

An original IBM PC with the 64K motherboard. It also has the cassette tape 
interface... It will likely go to the landfill sometime in the next year.

John Ferrell
http://DixieNC.US

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Black" <tkeithb at comcast.net>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: Mac vs PC


> I'm guessing you mean an original 64K PC, not 64K MB.
>
> BTW, regarding Bill Gates stealing the Windows idea from Apple... well, 
> yes
> he did and I'm surprised Apple wasn't able to stick it to him, but 
> remember
> that Steve Jobs stole the idea from Xerox. And thank goodness they did
> because the Xerox executives thought the new GUI brain child of their 
> Think
> Tank was a totally useless idea and canned the entire project.  Numerous
> very successful entrepreneurs subsequently came out of that Xerox Think
> Tank.
>
> Keith Black
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Ferrell" <johnferrell at earthlink.net>
> To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 6:54 PM
> Subject: Re: Mac vs PC
>
>
>> I still have one tucked away. I also have an original 64K MB PC. And
> several
>> other boat anchors...Would be willing to trade for something that takes 
>> up
>> less room...
>> Of course I have the displays to go with them... and a bit of other
>> junque...!
>>
>> John Ferrell
>> http://DixieNC.US
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Bob Richards" <bob at toprudder.com>
>> To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 3:55 PM
>> Subject: Re: Mac vs PC
>>
>>
>> > Well, you are absolutely right about that. Personally,
>> > I liked Dos (would not want to go back to it) but then
>> > I started with a TRS80 computer.
>> >
>> > --- brianyemail-nsrca at yahoo.com wrote:
>> >> I still remember when I saw and got to work on the
>> >> 1st
>> >> mac. Took me about 10 minutes to understand how to
>> >> use
>> >> it. The MS dos stuff of the time was a mess to learn
>> >> and every software package was different.
>> >>
>> >> Sure Am glad Bill Gates came up w/ the idea for
>> >> Windows.  ;)
>> >>
>> >> I still havent figured out how microsoft didnt
>> >> suffer
>> >> damages over that lawsuit apple waged.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
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