I had one, briefly. I rarely had to crack open the (very thin) instruction manual. Then, I got an IBM at work & bought a compatible for home. Soon, I had a shelf of books filled with arcane scribbles. I spent hundreds of hours learning DOS, and the “command line” codes for programs. IOW, I was doing the really mindless, repetitious work that the computer should have been doing. That time could have been used in more productive ways — more than making up for the additional cost of a Mac.
Also, the graphics capabilities were important to me — for such business graphics as PERT charts, CPM charts, and graphs, etc. It was either time consuming and complicated, or impossible to do these graphics with a DOS machine. Windows closed the gap — but, for at least 10 years I cursed DOS. (And, I was the “go to guy” in the office for any computer problems — most of my co-workers did not have the stoicism to suffer through the learning curves.)
Yes, the IBM’s did require a bit more of a learning curve, and they were slow to get on the graphics bandwagon. But, that all became history sometime in the early 90’s.
I got my start on a Radio Shack TRS80 and eventually got an IBM compatable around the late 80’s. I worked most of the 90’s at Drexel University, which at the time I started required all students to have a Mac. I was in charge of the IBM and Unix mainframes, but did have to have a Mac as my desktop and was involved in meetings dealing with University standards and other issues.
In the mid-90’s the University decided to shift to IBM computers (the new president’s decision I believe) so I was involved with the transition, which went surprising smoothly.
Thank God for IBM DOS.
In the early 80s I was forced to use program language to rewrite documents in basic language for several different languages. I couldn’t have done this with a “MAC”. MACs were developed for those with minds that were already burned out by drugs and had to have a graphical user inteface to even undersand an computer. I fought to the last inch against Windows. I could do anything I wanted using keypad commands until the time came that the programs I wanted weren’t written in DOS. Jobs and his generation were shortcut artist that couldn’t/wouldn’t ever understand computer language. MIcrosoft made the transition that MAC users could never follow.
Thank God for IBM DOS.
In the early 80s I was forced to use program language to rewrite documents in basic language for several different languages. I couldn’t have done this with a “MAC”. MACs were developed for those with minds that were already burned out by drugs and had to have a graphical user inteface to even undersand an computer. I fought to the last inch against Windows. I could do anything I wanted using keypad commands until the time came that the programs I wanted weren’t written in DOS. Jobs and his generation were shortcut artist that couldn’t/wouldn’t ever understand computer language. MIcrosoft made the transition that MAC users could never follow.