The PC corner: some thoughts on my tenth anniversary with Macintosh. (personal computer)

From: Business Economics | Date: April 1, 1994| Author: Brown, William S. | Copyright information

The Macintosh personal computer (PC) was first introduced as the most easy-to-use PC in the market. Today's Macintosh is more powerful, expandable, has color and reads and writes MS-DOS files. As such, the present generation may be less user-friendly to novices. Some of the new features of Macintoshes, including upgrades, CD ROMs, file compression and shareware utilities are presented.

Bill Brown is my guest columnist this quarter, writing about his tenth anniversary with Macintosh. ...

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