Msg: 821 *Conference*

11-06-91 14:28:53

From: BARRY WAGNER

To : RICHARD HANSON

Subj: REPLY TO MSG #820 (HOW ABOUT A DATE?)

I'll have something more to say about the Model 100 line when I have more time,
but it's essentially this: very often you find that the first is the best. I
take this to be obvious in the case of Rock music, for example, where the 50's
are still the best. Likewise in the case of civilization: better to be at the
dawn of Greece than at the dusk that was Rome. In technology, on the other
hand, it sometimes seems the reverse - afterall who prefers 78's to compact
disks? And yet the Model 100 line proves the rule here too: the first and best
laptop. Who was the genius who thought it up anyway? Of course one can argue
that other areas of life seem to geter better only later - sex for example
(yeah, I know, it always comes up). And yet who can forget their first time?
(i.e. their first sober time?) Oops! I guess I did say it all! -Barry.