Conference 7.286::macintosh

Came with the Evangelist mail this morning...

Date: Wed, 4 Jun 97 11:56:45 -0700
From: EvangeList <[email protected]>
Subject: FG--Macintosh in a Law Office
Message-ID: <[email protected]>

Keyword: Market by market, Law 

This revelation is from:

C.M. Johnson, [email protected]

This is the first time I have expressed my feelings about Macintosh/Apple 
and just wish it could have some impact. But it is something that I need 
to say

I wish more people would understand all the needs a computer can fill, 
understand the difficulty in making a computer fulfill its many tasks and 
then march down the road for several miles with a Win Pentium machine and 
then with a Mac Power PC machine. After the journey, where they had to 
solve all the problems on these machines without a computer/systems 
department holding their hand, they would gently pick up the Mac and take 
it home and say "I see the light".

I came from a large law firm. Few if any attorneys knew anything about 
computers and everyone made very poor use of their computer. Then in 1992 
I started my own firm. We decided this time to do it right. The new firm 
needed a computer LAN that everyone could use quickly and run multiple 
applications for high productivity. We needed to be able to add printers, 
scanners,extra hard drives, backup systems, remote users from home and on 
the road and have excellent use of the Internet. This all had to be done 
seamlessly, with minimum expense (calculated in person dollar hours as 
well as hardware cost) and with only rare periodic aid from computer 
consultants/techs. Thank god a computer master with experience in 
multiple systems, MS-Dos, UNIX, IBM mainframe and Mac said that Mac was 
the only answer to do everything I wanted as cleanly and elegantly as I 
wanted.

With that sage advice in December of 1991,I bought my first computer, a 
Mac, worked on it for exactly one month and then decided to set up a 
Macintosh LAN running ethernet on Novell Netware. The office started with 
3 attorneys and three staff. Over the last five years we have grown to 11 
attorneys and 8 staff all linked at work, home and on the road. We do our 
own publications, accounting, billing, voluminous word processing, 
e-mail, meeting scheduling. Our computers operate nicely between two 
offices linked via ISDN and between office, home and on the road via 
modems and the INTERNET. Apple/Mac has been a tremendous success.

Yes we have had a few snags along the way but very very few, and about 
99% even I, a true general novice in the computer world, have solved. 
More importantly everything works well together and every attorney gets 
the most out of the system with the least amount of training and 
retraining when we upgrade to new applications and new OS systems.

When the world wakes up from the zombie trance induced by the 
multi-millions of dollars spent for Windows and Pentium advertising and 
looks around with clear eyes and rational minds they will wonder who 
zoomed them so badly. Today's Mac and great Mac clones running on Power 
PC chips are the best computers on the market and will only continue to 
outdistance Wintel boxes. Mac is going to do fine long as there are those 
of us left than have to make their computers work for them using multiple 
applications and a variety of linked hardware seamlessly and elegantly.

I strongly recommend Mac OS based systems for anyone who knows how many 
things a good computer system has to do and do well.

Well that is my two cents worth. After five years of living day in, and 
day out, the "computer experience" as a working man who's time is his 
most important commodity, I feel strongly on this matter.