Re: TI-H: My final words to this fine Platform, Err TI list

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Re: TI-H: My final words to this fine Platform, Err TI list


I won't quote Rich's equally hellishly long message, but as a comment about
old computers...my tv station still uses oooold amigas for graphics, among
other things. I still have an old Franklin Ace 1000 which I got to run
Carmen Sandiego. I have a bunch of old XT's and painfully heavy various
equipment which I use to learn on or fool around with. Stuff doesn't die. It
just gets old :)

Speaking of old stuff and Macs, anyone know how to interface an old HP
Deskwriter with a Mac cable with a PC?

-Gabe

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Piotter <richfile@prairie.lakes.com>
To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Monday, August 24, 1998 9:24 PM
Subject: TI-H: My final words to this fine Platform, Err TI list


>
>I won't quote that hellishly long message, but in regards to price range,
they
>are different hardware platforms! you pay for the amount of hardware
quality,
>regardless of the software. says something we all have already said bout
mac hardware.
>
>The software on PCs suck in some ways and rule in others. THe software on
Macs
>suck in some ways and rule in others.
>
>There is plenty for the mac, and I forgot who said it, but half the PC
>software out there is maiteence and system additions, where as apple
includes
>or doesn't even need most of those things.
>
>OS is a personal preference. Choose what you want.
>
>I have also heard alot about Apple's impending demise. Everyone know it'll
>happen, and it'll happen to everyone else someday, but I have a feeling it'
>s being ver exagerated. Look at Apple in the past. They should have been
dead
>already, but htey keep on struggling. And now they have the G3 on their
side!
>Believe me, it did help them a little, and as they speed up and get more
>efficient prices, they will gain some popularity back.
>
>Software developers come and go. Apple might be at a low, but that doesn't
>mean a total lack of software, and like grant said. there is PC emulation,
and
>many games can be run via that. If you are so desprate get a PC card!
>
>Also the computers are more reliable than many come to think, and if they
>always require a service technitian, then why has my HIGH SCHOOL only
brought
>one in EVER, and did all the other repairs and servicing themselves???? Not
>just my highschool, but the other ones too. infact, the high school in town
>recently got rid of their last PCs in FAVOR of Macs!!! This is serious!
>
>Also there is one thing that some people are confused about.
>
>I don't give a shit if Apple dies. It just means that the REAL Mac Users
will
>come and get the deals of their lifetime. THey'll grab up all they can get
at
>the clearances, and then have top of the line Macs that'll still outrun PCs
>for a month at least. Then we'll start getting them at garage sales for
mere
>pocket change, and we'll hck them and do all sorts of shit with the
computers.
>I saw plans for a 1 Gig Commodore 128 HD about 1.5 years ago!!! I'm not
>kiding, and (for Adam) I didn't replace my C128 with my Mac, i got the C128
>after the Mac, and I still use it, cause it's a good computer with good
>sofware! I don't yet have an Amiga cause no one here has them in their
>garages. If I find one I'll get it!
>
>I don't replace a good computer, I keep it! That is how the Mac will be. A
PC
>might be cheap, but if some new computer came out that was $300 and was 10x
>better and faster than any PC, people would flock to it if it became a
>standard, th PC would just float away in facr of that. The Mac would too.
>Apple would die, and theMac would be sitting there, but hte mac is one of
>those computers that'll end up like the C128. It becomes almost like a
legend.
>I know a C128 is soooooo obsolete, but I LIKE it. THAT IS WHY I HAVE AND
STILL
>REGULARILY USE ONE!!! THIS IS WHAT THE MAC WILL DO WHEN APPLE DIES. The
>schools and biz will sell or trash them, and we real mac users will come
out
>of the wood work and grab them up and create whole home Mac labs! (:
>
>It's the people like the Steves that invented the Apple I that will
appreciate
>it for what it is.
>
>Don't ask me to explain, caus eunless you feel the same way about something
>you never will.
>
>It's hard to explain why the hell I keep a 128, and not just thay, but
build a
>media center with it as it's main focus! (: HA HA!!!!
>
>custom slide out Commodore drawer that automaticly switches the NTSC signal
>from TV to computer! 3 drives, a printer, UBEC interface card, and who
knows
>how much else (the UBEC is like the controll your world w/PC type deal, but
>works on ANY computer from TI, to TRS, to Heathkit, to commodore, to Apple
I,
>II, III, Lisa, Mac, to PC, to _Your system here_)
>
>When I defend the Mac, I defend it as a good machine that will be the next
>Commodore if Apple dies and will still remain to be excelent if Apple
lives.
>
>Don't try to oppose the last part of this nmessage casue it is what WILL
>happen, at least for me and some people I know. There are no numbers or
shit.
>Just an attempt to explain the way I think about a particular computer. I
like
>using it, and It's become a faviorite. It's my hobby to screw around on my
>Mac. It's MY personal standard. Not the world's, but I know other people
think
>the same way, cause I've met them.
>
>Can you deny that! (:
>
>I THINK NOT!!!
>--
>
>
>Richard Piotter
>richfile@prairie.lakes.com
>
>The Richfiles TI Hardware and BASIC web page:
>http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/5081/Richfiles.html
>
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