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[Pat D. Stephens]

Chas,

Your quote reminds me of an experience I had on the QE2 during a 
Pacific adventure a couple of years ago.  They had a PC room for us to 
use and I told the monitor that I was a Mac user, not a PC person and 
asked permission to check my email.  He agreed and since he taught 
classes told me to come at will and if a machine was available, for me 
to just sit down and use it.  One day, I strolled in and he had about 
15 machines,but about 10 people that he was teaching...and came over 
and apologized about 5 of them being 'messed up' and he was awaiting 
the ship's engineer to come and fix them.  Seems that during the night 
some kids had come in and put them into and endless loop.  I sat there, 
staring at one while it did it's thing...then, I cut the power button 
and waited then rebooted it.  Lo, and behold, it was fixed!  The fellow 
(former professor of computer science at an Eastern U) came by just 
then and asked me what I'd done, and I told him quite honestly that I 
was a Mac person and might have ruined it.  He laughed and asked me to 
'fix' the others the same way.  He seemed shocked (and I never knew if 
it was my lack of respect for the Windows machines, or my gall) but I 
'fixed' all of them and did my email and left, very quietly.

Pat
On Tuesday, July 1, 2003, at 11:42 PM, Charles Martin wrote:

> _Chas_
>
> "Working on a PC feels like going to work in a starched shirt and tie. 
> Walking up to a PC makes me anxious, almost like getting ready to take 
> the stage to deliver a speech on a topic I don't quite fully grasp. 
> You know what it is you need to do, but success in doing it is not 
> certain. Working on a Mac feels like throwing on your favorite jeans, 
> a pair of sandals, and a soft, well-worn t-shirt. Instead of sitting 
> down at a PC, you climb into the Mac environment like a huge beanbag 
> chair, squish around a few moments until you get your butt in that 
> perfect position, and then let it all fill up around you." -- John 
> Manzione, MacNetv2, 13-June-03
>