[muglo] Re: Apple Computer History
- From: Gerhard Kuhn <gerhardk@xxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:47:14 -0400
I had an Apple IIe and was ready to buy a new computer and looked at
the Macs at Horton and Wellington and I recall that with tax it would
be over $4,000 so I ended up buying a PC 286 and then went from DOS to
Windows 3.1, 95 and 98 and then to Apple OS 10.1 The step from the
IIe to 286 was an improvement in speed and I wanted to run Bedford
accounting program with the Canadian payroll module which was not
available to the IIe. Windows was o.k. but it crashed so often I
continued to use the DOS version of Bedford well into using 98 and
then switched when they no longer updated the DOS version. Switching
back to Apple I found that things worked better but I know that XP was
an improvement over 98 as well. The main thing that made me switch
was that I was interested in video editing and it was very frustrating
on both PCs I owned at the time. We were in the U.S. and when
returning stopped at the Walden Galleria mall in Buffalo and visited
my first Apple store. There was no pressure and willingness to
demonstrate iMovie by allowing me to shoot video with one of their
camcorders and letting me edit that on a iMac. The whole time they
knew that I would be buying in Canada, I left with a positive
impression and bought an iMac 800 with Superdrive the next week at
Mostly Mac/Digital. We still use that computer today 7 years later
along with 6 Macs of various ages. I don't think I have ever used a
PC for that length of time.
Gerhard
gerhardk@xxxxxxx
On 29-Mar-09, at 12:05 PM, Bob McDaniel wrote:
> My first Mac was a "Fat Mac" which
> I bought in 1986 at Lyon's (sp?) Logic on Horton St. I think it cost
> me
> over $4000 !
> Bob
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