Subj : OFFLINE READER NEEDE˙˙˙˙˙ To : All From : Bill Wise Date : Wed Aug 02 2000 11:31 pm MP> BW> on my iMac 333. MP> What color? Tangerine. My computer room has salmon walls and beige carpeting, and none of those other candy-ass flavors would work in here. I used to have a tangerine wallpaper on the iMac, but it was a bit much. Now I have a graphic of the USS Enterprise from STNG. MP> At school they bought a bunch load of those iMac, all pink and MP> "blue lolipop". ;) But mostly pink! I bought a keyboard from Adesso--one of those ergonomic jobs--and it only comes in the blueberry color. The advantage over the Mac keyboard is that it does things that PC keyboards do that Macs don't. OTOH, I've traded keyboards with them six times--they have a three- year warranty that they're trying to honor. Lots of problems with repeating, and disappearing from the bus so I have to unplug it and replug it. They claim they're getting a new batch from the Chinese manufacturer, and these have new "guts" that should eliminate all the problems I've been having. In the meantime, they have my money and I have nothing. Stay tuned. MP> Great machines, they do. People should really to try others th MP> As Microsoft is part of the Pop culture it's near impossible for A MP> to suceed enough. Amiga kick ass too! It's too bad the two companies didn't cooperate a little more. Apple could have had a larger share of the marketplace that Microsoft would never have missed. The Mac doesn't crash nearly as often as the PC did/does, unless I'm using SoftWindows98, then it crashes the whole machine. If I had the Adesso keyboard I could Ctl-Alt-Del my way out of the Windows problems, but the Mac keyboard's version of "delete" is everybody else's backspace. Bill billwise@afm.org * RM 1.3 01861 * Internet: billwise@afm.org --- * RIMEGate(tm)V10.2á˙* RelayNet(tm) NNTP Gateway * MoonDog BBS * RgateImp.MoonDog.BBS at 8/3/00 6:31:23 AM * Origin: MoonDog BBS, Brooklyn,NY, 718 692-2498, 1:278/230 (1:278/230) .