I'm gay and I quite happily use a PC. There's
hardly anything worse than an Apple snob, IMO.
Uh, right!
Uh huh, again...
The first computer I used was a Zenith Data Systems box, with two 5.25" floppy ports and no hard drive, and a zippy little Intel 8088 processor running (I think) at a whopping 8KHz. MS-DOS was Boss (ver. 2.0) This dandy piece of technology was owned by the First Marine Division, and I spent about 5 hours a day working on it. The two main programs I used were WordStar (I actually loved that program) and dBaseII (and later, dBaseIII). The bulk of my work was creating and maintaining a database, doing official correspondence, and generating reports... lots and LOTS of reports. :biggrin1: Some of our younger members don't remember the days before computers, let alone the days before the GUI interface and the mouse. I was SO proficient at typing formatting codes and writing DOS scripts!
Shortly after that, I got a Mac Plus. I've owned a Mac of one model or another since then (the second one I owned was a Performa 6116CD, and I replaced it with the G4 gigabit ethernet that I still own & use.)
I worked at a tech company for about 4 years in the early 1990s, and we did some heavy image processing, so we were mostly a Mac company (although I spent about 10 months in another department in that same company, using a Sun SparcStation). Other than that, I've always used PCs at work.
Pre-Windows2000 Windows operating systems were SHIT! 3.x was the worst I've seen. The best operating system I've worked with was MacOS 9.x
Our PC friends here never miss a chance to talk about the Mac snobs, but I've more often seen the reverse to be true. Personally, I don't really care which computer or why, another person chooses to use. I have had some really rabid anti-Macs tear into me for preferring Mac, though. One example in a previous post was someone who mentioned that Mac users like things to be easier. Really, though, what's wrong with that? Things have changed since then, but a few years back, (when Win 3.1 was ubiquitous) a PC fanatic engaged me in an argument about why PC was better. He started with price, and I mentioned that if we compared, my Mac, out of the box, cost about the same as his PC if he were to add a video card (extra), and a networking card (also extra). My processor also had much better performance ratings, even though it was about half speed. He began foaming at the mouth and saying it wasn't a fair comparison, because mine was a RISC processor. I just shrugged. I also mentioned that if I added a memory chip or an external drive, I didn't have to set any dip switches or re-write the config.sys and autoexec.bat files. I just plugged in the chip or the cable, and turned on the machine. He really lost control then.
Personally, if it works, and works well, I don't care.
