[AGL] Mac Attack

[bakhirun bakhirun]

I am trying to remember the quote from Spanish. It goes something like
"...lo que sabe el burro de matematika..." (but it is probably dirtier).

I too have a rather long history of rasslin' with personal computers. Artist
friends in Montreal first baptized me with a creaky Mac 512 in 1986. I well
remember the mental agonies required, at the age of 45, in having to learn
to follow every tiny rule and neat keystroke. Then I moved in with an old
pal in New York and used her MultiMate, on DOS. When I came to Indonesia and
started working as a copywriter I had to use WP5.1 because everybody else
was. Bye-bye Maccy at that point.

But I am basically a visual expressionist and the lure of the wild has
always hovered at the (event) horizon. I took a look at the iMac 24. Jeez,
it looks like a home theatre. And all the reviews, even from the non-Mac
crowd, are replete with wows.

So I'm going for it. As we used to say at the Campus Guild, "Faint heart
never screwed the cook."

Thankee

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On 3/6/07, Gerry <mesmo at gilanet.com> wrote:

>

> You know about as much about computers as I do about horses...

> G

>

>

> ----- Original Message -----

> From: "michele mason" <yaya.m at earthlink.net>

> To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s"

> <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 1:45 PM

> Subject: Re: [AGL] The Baron is either (a) or (b)

>

>

> That's okay. But, not flexibility, or bang for the buck—know where to

> buy and from whom. Software/hardware, maybe, maybe just a little

> inferior.  One may get used to a corncob, but I prefer Charmin.  Yes, a

> macsnob, but I don't mind.  mm

>

> On Mar 5, 2007, at 12:24 PM, Gerry wrote:

>

> > <<Macs are better in every sense!<<

> >

> > Except cost, bang for the buck, flexibility, general availability of a

> > huge

> > selection of software and hardware, etc.

> >

> > The one and only area that Macs established an early following and

> > have been

> > able to keep it is graphic arts...oh yeah, and cuteness...

> >

> > Not intending to start a "my computer is better than yours war" but

> > resisting such an extreme statement as yours.

> >

> > On the DOS platform since 1985,

> > G

> >

> >

> >

> > ----- Original Message -----

> > From: "michele mason" <yaya.m at earthlink.net>

> > To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s"

> > <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

> > Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 9:38 AM

> > Subject: Re: [AGL] The Baron is either (a) or (b)

> >

> >

> >> Macs are better in every sense! That's my story....and you know.

> >> Sincerely, I am a Mac-person and wouldn't have anything else. Its just

> >> a matter of which one you need. That ?, I would direct to Dave

> >> Moriaty.

> >>

> >> Best regards,  Michele

> >>

> >> On Feb 15, 2007, at 5:49 AM, blacky at cbn.net.id wrote:

> >>

> >>>

> >>> I have decided to plunk down two thousand clams for a 24-inch iMac,

> >>> primarily to use for photo work and video editing.

> >>>

> >>>

> >>> (a) Hooray for you, Byron. Go for it.

> >>>

> >>> (b) Yer bonkers, mate.

> >>>

> >>> Considering that all the furniture in my house is waterlogged, and

> >>> that

> >>> this sum represents a prodigious amount of dough for me, my esteemed

> >>> colleagues and most valued peers are staring at me like I have lost

> >>> my

> >>> fucking mind.

> >>>

> >>> Wish me luck folks. Anyhow the way I look at it since I spend 25% of

> >>> my

> >>> waking hours staring at a stupid screen it may as well be a

> >>> whizz-bang

> >>> one.

> >>>

> >>> Any, er, comments? Feedback? Warnings?

> >>>

> >>> BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB

> >>>

> >>

> >>

> >

>

>

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