RE: [RCSE] MS Outlook question

[Chuck Anderson]

A little over 20 years ago, I wrote an airfoil plot program for the 
Commodore 64.  I soon ported it to the Atari, TRS80, and other 
computers using the 6502 computer chip except for the Apple 
II.  Apple, in it's infinite wisdom, crippled the operating system so 
that basic programs could not send graphics to printers without 
special machine language routines.  I soon ported the program to 
MS-DOS computers and even to the original 128k Mac.  The only 
computer that had trouble running my program was the Mac.  Every 
month or so, Apple would issue an upgrade to the Mac operating system 
that required changes to my program. By 1988, I decided that I was 
selling enough programs to justify purchasing a real computer and 
evaluated everyone that I could afford.  The choices boiled down to 
the second generation Mac, the Amiga with the MS-DOS option, and a 
Gateway 2000.  I really didn't like the Mac that much and didn't like 
Apple's record of abandoning users of their earlier computers. 
(Applle III, Lisa, and the 128K Mac).  Cost ruled out the  Amiga so I 
wound up buying the very  first Gateway 2000.  I have never regretted 
the decision because  the programs II  wrote for the first Gateway 
will still run on my new Dell computer.  I can also use most of the 
software I bought over the last 20 years.

Chuck Anderson
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