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...Happy Hacker is perplexed by something that he sees on campus--students spending me time on sports teams, student groups and in student-produced shows than on then school work. Why spend $16,000 a year to major in protesting racists or whacking a puck (and members of the opposite team) around...
After a preliminary investigation, the Happy Hacker has determined that students are not interested enough in academics because they don't use their computers effectively. For most potential hackers, the P.C.'s on their cluttered desks serve more as $2000 electronic typewriters than as useful academic tools...
...Happy Hacker does not want to discourage students from participating in extracurricular activities, he merely wants to suggest that there are other things to do--such as sitting in front of a terminal on a nice spring day, watching the sun shine and realizing that the weather could be improved with just a few advances in the present hardware and software technology...
Like the new Apples, brother blue's models will also start out very expensive. And the Happy Hacker isn't holding his breath for prices to go down. All of the new systems promise to truly advance the state of personal computing technology...
...course, if all of the company employees are unable to help the Happy Hacker and other computer users because they're too busy playing with their new computers, it could retard the acceptance and spread of the new machines...