Thanks Ed. 

I’ve been an apple user since the days of the ll/e. I even set up a ll/e lab in 
a school where I worked in the early ‘80s.

I have always had Macs. I did get a Compaq computer as a second computer back 
in the day because I wanted to learn how to network them. It was never a 
primary computer for me but my wife used it for her personal work till she 
retired (she was a mainframe computer programmer who worked from home and used 
a pc to connect to the mainframe. She thought it would be too confusing to 
switch from the work pc to the personal computer if it was a Mac. When she 
retired I got her a MacBook pro which she has been using ever since). I took 
the hard drive out of the compaq and trashed the computer.

Life is good.



> On Dec 2, 2019, at 11:46 AM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I love your ending, you’ve been watching too many political ads.  
> 
> Try this one on, which I did:   Delete C: (alt delete alt).  Now I got this 
> wrong, been too many years,  but what I did was completely wipe out the 
> entire hard drive.  
> 
> There was a guy in the PC user group that said he would come over & help me 
> restore the files if I would get him booze & some women.  Somehow I got him 
> to show up without either.  
> 
> He went by the nickname of Freddie The Frog.  A real wacky smart guy.  Then a 
> guy from Provo, UT ask if I had ever looked at their investment software on a 
> Mac?   What’s a Mac.  I drove to a guys house way up in IL in a raging 
> snowstorm & saw the most gorgeous program I’ve ever seen.  That was 1984, & 
> have been hooked ever since. 
> 
> John 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Dec 2, 2019, at 12:21 PM, Jonathan Fletcher <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Well, what he REALLY meant, John, was 20-40 hours A WEEK. Every time you 
>> sat down to a DOS machine you had to translate the real world into this 
>> abstract, arcane syntax that made no sense.
>> 
>> My name is Jonathan Fletcher and I’ve been a Mac Bigot since 1985.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Dec 2, 2019, at 12:00 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Very good Ed thanks, however the contention that DOS could be learned in 20 
>>> to 40 hours might be a stretch!  
>>> 
>>> John 
>> 
>> --
>> Jonathan Fletcher
>> Workplace Innovation Facilitator
>> [email protected]
>> 
>> Kentuckiana FileMaker Developers Group  •  Next Meeting: 12/17/19
>> 
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>> www.talklou.com 
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