Re: Mac user who needs Windows from time to time


Steve Hyman(steveh[at]practech.com)
Wed, 1 Jul 1998 07:32:03 -0400


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From: Carmelo Manganaro [mailto:cmanganaro@ndirect.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 1998 4:36 AM
To: steveh@practech.com
Subject: Re: Mac user who needs Windows from time to time

At 15:13 30/06/98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>
>Of course, this means buying a brand new machine, but if your friend
>still has a 6100, then it's about time anyway. You can get a new
G3/266
>for $1700 on the educational price list, a ViewSonic monitor (with the
>mac adaptor) for about $350, and another 64mb (for a total of 96mb) of
>RAM for about $130 from Techworks. Add a copy of VirtualPC for ~$150
>and a two button mouse (for that real window feel) and you have a
>machine that will run Windows95/98 (or NT or Linux or Solaris) and the
>MacOS for around $2400.
>Kyle

Yes, but the problem is that for $1000 you can buy a Windoze
harware/software and connect the PC to the mac via Ethernet for file
transfer....
Carmelo

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Carmelo Manganaro
126 Garfield Road
Wimbledon London SW19 8SB
United Kingdom
Tel./Fax: 0181-540 1052

Where CAN'T you go today?
According to Microsoft statistics,
there are approximately 60 million
Windows 95 users. Coincidentally,
that just happens to be the number
of Macintosh users. If 60 million
Mac users are not a viable force,
what is?
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