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Mike Stanley wrote:
>
> I hear you. I've just taken over administering the labs at UTK.
> Luckily, until I get the PCs in shape, I don't have to deal with the
> Macs. By the time I do have to deal with them we'll probably have
> phased out even more of them than we have already. When I came to UTK
> I'd say there were 6-10 Macs for every PC. It's the other way around
> now, and getting worse/better.
Oh my! I've been here at MU for eight years and we haven't seen either
extreme that you've watched. In '91 we were about 60-70% Mac and now
we're about 70% Windows (not including Unix workstations at all).
> I'm about to pull an old 8500/150 out of storage to use for a while as
> a secondary machine. Very secondary, though. I'll be using my new P3
> most of the time.
I used an 8500/150 as my primary machine for quite some time. With 128M
RAM, it's pretty zippy, but not by today's standards I suppose.
--
Sincerely,
Christopher L. Weeks
central Missouri, USA
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