For those who aren't on Mac yet: think about it...

Posted by jamesofford
Oct 16, 2015 at 03:06 PM

Ah yes, the Mac vs PC in industry battle. Back when I was working in industry, the company for which I worked originally had a very enlightened approach to what computer you could use. You could use whatever you wanted. People generally chose computers that would facilitate their work. At the time I was doing a lot of gene manipulation, and the software on the mac was far superior to what was available on the PC. When the place was networked(Yes, I am that old.)we were still able to use either Macs or PCs because all of the local software that we used on the network was written with open software that was computer and browser agnostic.

Then we were bought out by another company. At the time they were running Windows 95. The word came down that everyone needed to move to PCs, and we would all be running Windows NT 3.5. We had two guys who maintained all of the Macs on site. There were a few hundred. We had a large department who supported the PCs. Sigh.

I really missed my Mac when they took it away.

Jim