Text 62646, 32 rader
Skriven 2010-10-03 08:29:39 av Jean Parrot (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 62644 av TOM WALKER (1:123/140)
Ärende: Dedication.
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Tom wrote:

 TW> Compatibility is the ISSUE. When I first started at the Local VA
 TW> Medical Center they were just introducing the PC world to their users.
 TW> Previously the Departments has an assignment of NON compatible CPM
 TW> machines in the offices. The compatibility of the PC really caught on.
 TW> We did have one Department go with the mac though and that was the
 TW> Anesthesiologists. And that was for the ease of networking as they trades
 TW> papers between PHD's far more than most of the other departments.

	Let me state my mind here Tom. The world could have stuck to the Wormy just as
well as to the PC. Except that the Wormy was far too much proprietary than any
other manufacturers of PC.  It was then a nice machine and still is but
restricted to the very high qualified coders and the dummies who wanted a
machine, "a toaster". No in between. I have family proof of this. I could not
have built these homebrewed machines if I had gone Wormy, and I did not have
the $$$ to purchase one. My machines cost me ñ $300/ea, homebrewed !

	That was my choice then and still is, as like you, an old dog. All the items
that they bring out, iPad and cie, are to me like toys, they appeal to the
"must-have" crowd. Your first kid on the block mantra giving them bragging
rights.

	Something funny took place here in the city, the top English rag went from
Wormy setup to PC and it is unnoticeable in the end product except that they
saved $KKK in renewing their equipment.

	I am not denigrating the Wormy, just their marketing. And still, I do more on
my PC than the family members using a Wormy.

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