On Feb 24, 2020, at 9:08 AM, jsm5320432 via Groups.Io <
jsm5320432@...> wrote:
This was not the case 30+ years ago, when I would generally be the ONLY person in a meeting, or conference with a Mac and certainly not in D.C. where I worked many years as a lobbyist for California clients. D.C. was a windows only world back then and when I stopped doing federal lobbying about 12 years ago, it was still insofar as I could tell. Given what else goes on in D.C. the predominance of windows computers seemed somehow, apropos.
I would say that as long as 30 years ago, in academic medical society meetings, about the same time as PowerPoint presentations replaced those melting diazo-blue slides that ¡°couldn¡¯t take the heat¡± generated by the enormous incandescent bulbs in projectors in giant hotel ballrooms, it was not uncommon, when a new presenter would step to the podium and be unable to sync his Windows laptop to the projector or get beyond the ¡°Start¡± menu, people in the audience would chuckle and a chorus of ¡°get a Mac¡± would swell from the audience.
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Jim Robertson
