Forum Archive Index - March 2004

[robin benson <rob@hammerheadmedia.co.uk>]

Thanks Woodie for the interesting comments -- I feel younger already!

However, I suspect you might be wide of the mark on a number of points. 
These appear as a matter of correction only -- apologies for the 
off-topic nature of this post.

1. I can assure you that you were not using an Apple computer before I 
could tie my shoelaces unless you somehow had a pre-Wozniak/Jobs Apple 
computer.

2. The Lisa was not the first commercially available Apple. I know this 
because I owned a commercially available Apple (the Apple 2) before the 
Lisa and knew business using this model.

3. I can provide proof of many years of Apple use (since 1977). 
Expertise is quite a relative term. Some would consider themselves 
expertise when others would see them as mere beginners. It is hard to 
measure, but do general 6502 machine-code programming (later writing a 
Pacal compiler in machine code), boot-tracing, EPROM-programming and 
publishing programs count?

Your Mac exploits sound commendable. I can't think of why myself or 
anybody would want to "challenge" you on your use of your technologies. 
Indeed, I encourage you to continue!

Robin

On 17 Mar 2004, at 11:39, Woody wrote:

> Robbie you are obviously quite young I was using an apple computer 
> before
> you could even tie you shoelaces.
>
> The Apple 1 had bus speed of 1 mhz,  8kb of onboard ram and 32kb of 
> ram It
> was Steve Wozniak's first salable computer. It was not commercially
> available outside the US. The first Commercially available Apple was 
> the
> Lisa. It was too expensive and few could afford it. The first real 
> Apple PC
> was the Macintosh and if you were a real Apple user this was what you 
> called
> their first usable computer.
>
> I used the first Mac to design and eventually publish a news paper. I 
> use
> the first beta version of pagemaker and over 50 floppy disks. Sometimes
> spending hours typing an article only to get ' Disk Full " leaving me 
> with a
> repeat performance.
> I can send you copies of this paper copies of the following magazines 
> I also
> published on subsequent Mac 11 and eventually the Power Mac. So if you 
> want
> to challange me on the use of the Mac then shall we use this public 
> forum to
> do so. Send me you address and I shall send proof of many years of 
> Apple use
> and expertise.  I doubt that you can do likewise.
>
> Woody


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