[Info-vax] Maybe a bit OT, maybe not.. in any case an interesting article

[Paul Sture]

On Tue, 15 May 2012 17:12:14 -0400, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:

> On 5/15/2012 9:40 AM, Bob Koehler wrote:
>> In article<YqadnQbVdK5g0yzSnZ2dnUVZ_vydnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B.
>> Gilbert"<rgilbert88 at comcast.net>  writes:
>>> Turbo-Tax is not an MS product.  It's a product of "Intuit".  It does
>>> require Windows so I suppose you will have to "roll your own" to run
>>> under VMS.
>>
>>     It DOES NOT require Windows.  We've been running it on MacOS for
>>     over a decade.
>>
>>
> Sorry, I don't do Mac.  When I went to buy a computer, I found that I
> couldn't afford a Mac.  I bought the el cheapo X86 MS-DOS that I *could*
> afford!
> 
> In a career spanning almost forty years, I managed to get about four
> hours of "face time" with a Mac.
> 
> It appeared, to me, that the graphic arts people loved the Mac and no
> one else cared!

You are probably thinking of the Macs of yesteryear.

Modern Macs appeal to folks from many walks of life.



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Paul Sture