Linked by alcibiades on Wed 10th May 2006 19:40 UTC
I started out as a Mac user in about 1985 in a world which will be totally unfamiliar to almost all readers of OSNews. You wrote out your stuff by longhand, and a secretary typed it on a word processor. If you were lucky and able to manage it, you could dictate it. But you did not dictate into a dictating machine, because these were big heavy and expensive. You dictated it directly to someone who could 'take shorthand'. If you had a PC, it ran DOS. You looked for your files, and moved them around, started applications, one at a time, from the command line, and the command line was not pretty, it was green on black.
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2006-05-10
I do agree that for my work , I do not know if the Mac could be feasable , usable .....Would Apple be reponsive to bugs ......? I doubt it .....
But , for my personal use ..........WOW! What a computer .......
Understanding , easy , user frienly ......anything ....
That is my cup of tea .....
I have touched Irix , Solaris , Linux ,Vax, PDP11, Unix , Mac , Window 2000 , XP , 3.1
Os 6, 7, 8, 9 ..... Amiga , OS-I6502 , Cromenco.......Z81 .....
My most adorable PC was my Amiga 1000 first ........
My MACmini second for now .......
And not far my G5 .........
Aramis