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Indeed. You sweep a large brush, based on your perusal of the "LA Times" Adv. dept?

Well, yes, I suppose that is hilariously stupid of me, considering Los Angeles is one of the largest tech markets in the world, far exceeding the job base of many countries.

Let me first explain my experience. My first Mac was a Mac Lisa. While you were learning shortcuts in 1984, I was piggybacking processors, stacking ram, and programming Macs. Over the next ten years, I help build the industry. I know the pleasures of dealing with Apple's non-disclosure documents. I was quite pleased with helping with the design on the Mac II, and of the nine Macs I've owned, every single one still operates wonderfully (though the Lisa lives on only as a wall clock at an observatory.

But of course, you bring up the news industry. I helped write the manual for Knight Ridder to use to convert their paste up departments to pagination, using the III systems that became the cornerstone for the large publishing industry. (Very happy with buying their stock at the time, too, though Tron was a bit silly.)

I enjoyed setting up IT departments up till the change of the century for corporations across the United States. My biggest challenge was re-working the Hughes IT support section into something that could actually handle their needs.

I've likely shed close to 20 pints of blood onto the circuit boards of Mac computers, and lit myself up more than a few times off of those flybacks.

Do you know more? No. You don't. I've likely exceeded your knowledge with what I've forgotten, mostly because I've not used a Mac for the last five years. It would probably take me forty minutes to strip down and rebuild a LaserWriter today, and likely three hours to rebuild an ImageWriter printhead, horrible times compared to years ago. I knew most of the folks who signed the inside of the Apple IIgs.

The article comes from MacUser. If Apple had captured just 10% of the corporate desktops, they would be issuing a massive press release to boost their stock. They would not be talking about their iPod sales, or iTunes. Had they captured 10% of the corporate desktops, you'd see Microsoft announcing a storm of new products to capture part of that market back again.

As for overall install base, if you totaled every 68000 derived processor, as well as every PowerPC derived processor, you still would not equal 10% of the corporate computer market. Just in computerized registers alone, you might come close..maybe.

One of the things I've learned on FreeRepublic is never assume that someone is ignorant until they've proved it. Take the lesson to heart.

Well, yes, I suppose that is hilariously stupid of me, ...

Well said! The rest of it is nice hype.

I own four businesses, and established one foundation. I own four houses, and real peoperty in five states, now. I have made two fortunes while you apparently reconstructed dot-matrix printers. I just bought another printer, and kept using it to make my living. I have added memory by myself, and loaded programs.

I didn't write anything, or do anything to advance the computer world, other than spend many thousands of dollars.. I have just used them, since I learned a little in the Navy, circa 1966. I broke in on a Mk 1A analog mass of cams, gears, and rollers. My first electronic computer was a Timex 64. I owned Commodores, and Amigas. I played with Atari and some other toys.

In 1984, I was a lowly building contractor, needing to make changes in floor plans, without returning a set to the drafter. I had to make a choice between the newly original AutoCAD, with Big Blue, and a MacDraft 1.0. I still don't know how to use those c> things... and never will.

Congratulations on your background. I have hired a lot of guys like you...

Spot and I are headed to the mountain. I walk 4-6 miles on the ridges, while he runs 15-20. Have a good life. I do...