I remember those ASCII art green games on the old IIe machines... On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Raymond E. Feist <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Feb 28, 2012, at 10:09 AM, Nick Andrews wrote: > >> Change just for the sake of change is always bad. And for production >> operations, it needs to be for a damned good reason to even consider >> it at all... > > > It was funny. I had a talk in front of the San Diego Apple Users Group > (later morphed into the Mac Users Group) and those tech heads could not be > convinced of this. They don't get the part that says, "First, we rip out > millions of dollars of existing infrastructure," needs to be offset by > "because this change will end up making us more money." Home computers were > still "neep, neep" stuff by propeller heads, and business had only just begun > to start looking to PCs in strategic locations to free up overhead from > dedicated main frames. The first people to get PCs in business were > secretaries and accounts, and the art departments got early Macs. > > Best, R.E.F. > ---- > www.crydee.com > > Never attribute to malice what can satisfactorily be explained away by > stupidity. > > > > > > >
-- Nick A "You know what I wish? I wish that all the scum of the world had but a single throat, and I had my hands about it..." Rorschach, 1975 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." Bill Vaughan "The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." Plato
