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- From: temple@ucbeh.san.uc.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Macs preferred to PCs --- at least here...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.030235.2303@ucbeh.san.uc.edu>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 03:02:35 EST
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- Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati
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- >> Heh. Probably because the operators are too short-sighted to figure
- >> out how to link them together - so people can ACTUALLY DO THEIR WORK
- >> BETWEEN THE TWO (yes, it can be done!). So people who have always had
- >> their work on the PCs stay there because there isn't an effort to try
- >> to even out the usage in the lab (by buying WordPerfect/Mac, Lotus123/Mac)
- >
- > Umm, I can say that it's the opposite here at UofMD. Generally,
- >it's much easier to get a PC than a Mac.
-
- Opposite here, too, at the University of Cincinnati. There are
- countless PCs (nice new PS/2s, networked to laser printers) and a
- whole bunch of SEs and LCs. The PS/2s are rarely used; the Macs are
- constantly mobbed. It got so competitive I bought a second mac (a
- PB100) so that I could do work at school on a mac.
- This was also the case when I was an undergraduate at Vassar
- College --- they had an equal number of PCs and Mac 512Ks (this was
- back in 1985/86) --- the macs were used constantly, the PCs, even
- back then, were largely ignored.
-
- Jon Temple
- Dept. of Psychology
- University of Cincinnati
-