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...worshippers of both the PC-brand of collective democratic morality and the traditional, conservative Judeo-Christian variety, Beavis and Butt-head are tantamount to the Antichrist. Of course, that's pretty cool...

Author: By Brad EDWARD White, | Title: Malcontents | 9/22/1993 | See Source »

...always trust that new dormmate of yours from Oklahoma who tries to sell you his 8MHz IBM PC which weighs at a bit less than 50 pounds. "It's heavier so it can hold all the chips," he says. Yeah, right...

Author: By Haibin Jiu, | Title: P.C. CORNER | 9/15/1993 | See Source »

...Have a clear idea what you will be doing with your PC. Why get a 66MHz 486 when all you need a computer for is word processing and playing SuperSuper Tetris? Why spend $1,000 on a 21-inch SuperVGA monitor when a normal 14-inch VGA monitor will suffices and makes better economic sense...

Author: By Haibin Jiu, | Title: P.C. CORNER | 9/15/1993 | See Source »

...waste tons of time deciding whether to buy a PC (one that uses an Intel microprocessor; often called an IBM-compatible or clone) or a Macintosh. The truth is today there really isn't much difference between the two. PCs used to be super-cheap; but now the price war in the personal computer industry has forced Apple to roll out several affordable models. Macs formerly were the only computers that were user-friendly; but a PC equipped with Microsoft Windows or IBM's OS/2 2.1 is just as easy...

Author: By Haibin Jiu, | Title: P.C. CORNER | 9/15/1993 | See Source »

...they are talking about. Helpful sources of information include the computer store salesperson (who, beware, may be quite dogmatic in his or her preferences), the Harvard Computer Society (their e-mail address is hcs@husc4) and their resourceful handbook, Computers at Harvard, and computer trade magazines such as Byte, PC Sources and Mac-World...

Author: By Haibin Jiu, | Title: P.C. CORNER | 9/15/1993 | See Source »

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