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To: Jay Lowe who wrote (746)	12/17/1999 10:25:00 AM
From: Harvey Allen	Respond to of 1782

Jay- 60% of the American population is back where you and I were when we bought our first PC. A DOS PC did pretty good for a buyer back in the 80's and 16bit Windows did well in the first half of the 90's. If we had to we could go back to them now as long as we had Internet connection. Someone who walks out of K-Mart with a Global PC box under their arm is going to do much better than we ever did no matter what their needs are in a couple of years. I don't think a kid is going to do a science report on one of the super STB's or an Internet enabled Playstation. I do see that report being done on a small footprint PC. The PC model has had tremendous success in twenty five years and still has lots of life left. In regards to your earlier post with 4 PC choices I had some thoughts about which PC is selected and I think a lot of people will pick the simple and avoid the complex. Also I have been watching QVC lately selling their latest 500MHz monster PC's and thinking how much easier the pitch will be with GlobalPC and just basic tasks. Re: diskette. I'm pretty sure that diskette media will be sufficient for GlobalPC OS and software APs. Probably a USB CD-Rom for GlobalPC power users as an option. How soon we forget. DOS 5 diskettes. Then Windows 7 diskettes. Then Excel 5 diskettes. Then Word 6 diskettes. I still use Excel 5.0 and notepad is fine for my editing chores. Harvey