From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Stefan Ram  wrote:   
   >Mike Spencer  wrote or quoted:   
   >>Soon thereafter, Apple was ballyhooing the Mac so I borrowed a Mac for   
   >>a week, then went into the Apple Store and had a look:   
   >>Me: So, how do you program it?   
   >   
   >  IIRC at one point in time around 1981, the answer was:   
   >   
   >  You buy a Lisa. The "Lisa Workshop" is the development system   
   >  for the Mac.   
      
   My friend David Jacobs was so enthused about the Mac and how wonderful it   
   was going to be when it came out, because it would be a Lisa at a reasonable   
   price for anyone.   
      
   But when it actually arrived, it wasn't anything like a Lisa, and it was   
   designed to be an appliance.  He and I didn't want an appliance.  I'm not   
   speaking out against appliances because there is certainly a need for them.   
      
   And.... one of the answers to "how do you program it?" is "you use Hypercard."   
   Likely the salesman didn't really know much about it, but that's typical   
   of salesmen.  One month they are selling furniture, the next they are   
   selling IBM mainframes, the month afterward they are selling wholesale   
   groceries.  That's the sales business.   
   --scott   
      
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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