XPost: comp.sys.cbm, rec.games.video.classic   
   From: sgillettnospam@diespammergte.net   
      
   "jt august" wrote ...   
      
   > In article <1hl4q08qcnjf2.1cexgdvhq10oj$.dlg@40tude.net>,   
   > Brandon Staggs  wrote:   
   >   
   >> If my   
   >> parents had gotten me an Apple ][ I'd probably have just decided to   
   >> dig ditches or flip hamburgers all my life. :-)   
   >   
   > You might have been better off.  If the PET was so great, why was it   
   > gone from the landscape by the time the C=64 was becoming a powerhouse,   
   > but the Apple ][ family was still thriving with the //e and //c in those   
   > years?   
      
   You both missed the point, and brought the PET in from somewhere in outer   
   space.   
      
   His point was that more IT professionals and programmers who were teenagers   
   in the 80's started their interest in computers on the C64 than on an Apple,   
   and that interest led them down the road to where they are today.   
   --   
   Best regards,   
      
   Sam Gillett   
      
   Change is inevitable,   
   except from vending machines!   
      
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