Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Jeff, MAC = Mac when the caps lock key gets stuck. Ha ha Howard On 30 Jul 2007, at 8:36 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote: > Message: 13 > Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:23:32 -0400 > From: Jeff Moore <jbm@jbm.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] New M8 firmware > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Message-ID: <20070729232332.GL2526@jbm.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > 2007-07-27-18:51:50 Howard Cummer: >> Thanks to all - I'm good to go. Sometimes I forget how simple it is >> to use a MAC. > > Whatever is an MAC? What words to M, A and C stand for? > > I've heard of PCs (for Personal Computer, hearkening back to the > original IBM models, and implying anything from that bloodline up > through the Windows-running behemoths of today), and I happen to use a > Mac (short for Macintosh, one word); but what is this MAC? > > [Semi-sorry for the rant, but it just bugs me when people do this. > And > I'm pleasantly full of strong Lagunitas ale, which frees me to be > even > less badly oppressed by the shackles of politeness than usual.] > > -Jeff >