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SURVEY RESULTS: COMPUTER USE BY FANS ON alt.tv.twin-peaks
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Copyright (c) 1991 by David L. Claytor (tuttle@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us)
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Well, I finally got around to compiling the results of a survey I
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posted here on alt.tv.twin-peaks concerning computer use by fans of Twin
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Peaks. The original posting read as follows:
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From: tuttle@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (David L. Claytor)
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Subject: Computer use
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Summary: Which make/model computer do you use?
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Keywords: Computer, mac
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Message-ID: <HgZ8u1w163w@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
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Date: Thu, 03 Jan 91 18:39:28 EST
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Distribution: world
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Organization: The Programmers' Pit Stop, +1 313 665 2832
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A friend of mine contends that the majority of Twin Peaks fans *must* be
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Mac users. It "stands to reason," he claims, "given the nature of the
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program." He supports his contention by citing the Mac Plus in Sheriff
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Truman's office and the Mac laptop used during Cooper's meeting with FBI
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Internal Affairs.
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If you're so inclined, e-mail the make/model of your computer to me
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tuttle@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us by 12:00 p.m. EST, January 31, 1991; I'll
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compile the replies and post the results here on alt.tv.twin-peaks.
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_______________________
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I am pleased to report that I received 122 responses, many of which were
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thoughtful and quite detailed, from the following individuals:
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zecca@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Admiral Avenger)
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dkrause@orion.oac.uci.edu (Douglas Krause)
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blbusby@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Brian L. Busby)
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daled@meaddata.com (Dale Drummond)
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Rajiv Arora <rajiv@ee.rochester.edu>
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"Mark Gleaves" <cmdglv@vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu>
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VARGO@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
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mjv@brownvm.brown.edu (Marshall Vale)
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deleone@cs.wisc.edu (Renato De Leone)
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muffy@mica.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy)
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Delia Cioffi <cioffi@menudo.uh.edu>
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tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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"Janet M. Swisher" <swsh@midway.uchicago.edu>
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Doug vanderVeen <dv0o+@andrew.cmu.edu>
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sawires%aludra.usc.edu@usc.edu (Kalim Sawires)
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heinen@cayman.AMD.COM (Dirk Heinen)
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smn@rhea.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Sarah McCord Nabee)
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dog@cbnewsl.att.com
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mdm%wdl50@wdl1.wdl.loral.com (Mike D Marchionna)
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mvb@MIT.EDU (Mary V. Burke)
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rjp1@ihlpa.att.com (Robert Pietkivitch)
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rmb@cblph.att.com (Richard M Brack)
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Jonathan Levine <jlevine@us.oracle.com>
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Mike Melnyk <rmm@ipac.caltech.edu>
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Brian Kendig <bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
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bobh@twinkie.bellcore.com
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Breck Witte <witte@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
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Dean Hansen <dhansen@u.washington.edu>
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lll@iris.brown.edu (Lawrence Lee Larrivee)
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krs@uts.amdahl.com (Kris Stephens)
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Malcolm Mladenovic <mbm@dsbc.icl.stc.co.uk>
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sandell@theory.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Gregory Sandell)
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jwk@scripps.edu (John Kupec)
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davidb@psych.toronto.edu
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Carol Miller-Tutzauer <RIACMT@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu>
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bam%rudedog.asd.sgi.com@SGI.COM (Brian McClendon)
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<claris!Ken_Walter@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
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phz@cadence.com (Pete Zakel)
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rcarter@isis.cs.du.edu (Ron Carter)
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Rich_Haller@computing_ctr.uoregon.edu (Rich Haller)
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Marci Swede <ms5h+@andrew.cmu.edu>
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genoa@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
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bwdavies@rodan.acs.syr.edu
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bhanafee@ads.com (Brian Hanafee)
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D Neilson <erdb04@castle.edinburgh.ac.uk>
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Marc Milgram <milgr%teapot.prime.com@RELAY.CS.NET>
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Bernie Roehl <broehl@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
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jlecount@pyrps5.pyramid.com (Jason LeCount)
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leebai!crane.aa.ox.com!heifetz!leebai!caen!uwm!lll-winken!pacbell!PacBell.
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CO (Kelly Marinan)
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arthur@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Arthur L. Chin)
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jym@mica.berkeley.edu (Jym Dyer)
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russw@cs.utexas.edu (Russ Williams)
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SEILER@AMARNA.GSFC.NASA.GOV (Ed Seiler (a.k.a. Bruno Frescobaldi))
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"Dave Pawson" <DPAWSON.US.oramail@us.oracle.com>
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kriguer@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Marc Kriguer)
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vanhoek@bend.UCSD.EDU (Karen van Hoek)
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nhess@us.oracle.com (Nate Hess)
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nate@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Nate Berggren)
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David G. Paschich <dpassage@ocf.Berkeley.EDU>
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sally@mica.berkeley.edu (S. A. Wilson)
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Haakon Dahle <hela!idt.unit.no!haakon>
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Asger H|gsted <hela!freja.diku.dk!bims>
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rjb@allegra.tempo.nj.att.com (Ron Brachman)
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chandler@wc.novell.com (Mark Chandler)
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<Viet.Ho@samba.acs.unc.edu>
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tj@CS.UCLA.EDU (Tom Johnson)
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snoopy!Logicon.COM!jeff@ucsd.edu
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mvpab@mvgpn.att.com (Paul A Bouchard)
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Lane_Molpus@NEXT.COM
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raveling@Unify.com (Paul Raveling)
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kkoda@ucsd.edu (Kerry Koda)
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dak1200@ma (David A Kavanagh)
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Eric SHAMASH <zeke@homer.cs.mcgill.ca>
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"JONATHAN H. DAVIDSON" <DAVIDSON@AC.DAL.CA>
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tel%egypt@uunet.UU.NET (Terry Monks)
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Shin C. Kao <skao@ocf.Berkeley.EDU>
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apple!well!cbm (Chris Muir)
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att!fang!ablnc!kimi@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU
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Mark Wahl <wahl@ocf.Berkeley.EDU>
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fi@grebyn.com (Fiona Oceanstar)
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Larry W. Virden <osu-cis!chemabs!lwv27>
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"Shawn Broderick" <shawn@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
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vanka@cgrg.ohio-state.edu (Suryanarayana Vanka)
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wybbs.mi.org!meyers (John Meyers)
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"PCURRY 415-723-0730" <AT.PLC@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
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Brad H Needham <bradn%tekig3.pen.tek.com@RELAY.CS.NET>
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Robert B. Neville <rbn@apple.com>
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robertj@fernwood.mpk.ca.us (Young Rob Jellinghaus)
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perz@edc3jr.gsph.pitt.edu (Walter G. Perz)
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srm@packard.att.com (Steven R Marcovici)
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leebai!caen!sharkey!ames!claris!netcom!drazil (Devin Ben-Hur)
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cdr@brahms.AMD.COM (Carl Rigney)
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eblinder@dorsai.com (Eva Blinder)
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Jon Ross <jonr@ifi.uio.no>
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vanth!jms@amix.commodore.com (Jim Shaffer)
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"Robert Noone" <noone_r@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>
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aamiddle@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Arthur Alan Middleton)
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ilh@goldilocks.LCS.MIT.EDU (I. Lee Hetherington)
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Paris H Magasiny <paris@brahms.udel.edu>
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norm@wbst845e.xerox.com (Norm Crowfoot)
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Keith Dawson <dawson@Atex.Kodak.COM>
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David Barr <sisley@u.washington.edu>
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Brady Duga <duga@cvs.rochester.edu>
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leebai!indetech.com!janet (Janet Christian x2054)
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rlcarr@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
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eddie@bme.unc.edu (Eddie Averett)
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jennifer@ux1.lbl.gov (jennifer schuman)
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waggoner@dtg.nsc.com (Mark Waggoner)
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Jeff Pelz <jeff@cvs.rochester.edu>
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stuart@cup.portal.com (Ken Stuart)
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Chuck Dupree <dupree@hpclpb.corp.hp.com>
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Tiny Bubbles... <ho@hoss.unl.edu>
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mig@beach.csulb.edu (Mig Gomez)
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leebai!caen!uwm!Atherton.COM!jamsheed (Jamsheed Hayatghaib)
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Greg M. Brown <brown@mist.CS.ORST.EDU>
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(I apologize if I missed anyone or listed an address incorrectly.)
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In evaluating the replies, I attempted to the adhere to the following
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criteria: 1) Determine the primary computer which the respondent used for
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work or to read net news, and 2), count only the respondent's vote, i.e.,
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disregard the "other computer at home" and other alleged TP fans in the
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same office or at home. Nevertheless, of the 122 responses, I excluded
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six from the final tally, because each of these individuals reported
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having access to both mac and non-mac computers, neither of which sounded
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primary.
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What did the survey prove? Nothing, really. The original premise was
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flawed to the extent that it should have read "the majority of Twin Peaks
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fans WHO READ ALT.TV.TWIN-PEAKS *must* be Mac users." I don't know if it
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would be possible to extrapolate from the population of newsgroup readers
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to the universe of all TP viewers who use computers. Also, lumping
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computer users into either/or groups (mac and non-mac) skewed the basic
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distribution.
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Breaking the results into mac and non-mac groups, however, my friend was
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wrong. Non-mac users outweighed mac users, 60% to 40%. That is, the
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majority (60%) of TP fans who read alt.tv.twin-peaks and replied to the
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survey do NOT use macs. BUT, of all the computer makes/models reported,
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the Macintosh had a distinct edge.
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46 Macintosh 40%
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25 workstations 22%
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23 IBM/clones 20%
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12 Amiga 10%
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10 Others 9%
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Thus, while it is NOT true that the majority TP fans who read
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alt.tv.twin-peaks use macs, it IS true that more macs are used by TP fans
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who read alt.tv.twin-peaks than any other make of computer.
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Concerning the macs on the television program, it is probably true, as
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Paul Raveling (raveling@Unify.com) wrote,
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[that] "The Macs are computers of convenience -- Apple
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supplied the Twin Peaks folks with a whole mess of them
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at (I believe) no charge. . .Apple sometimes does some
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odd things to support the arts."
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Asked if he could support his assertion, Paul added:
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"It's all word of mouth from Scott Frost. He and the
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other writers all have a Mac at home, and when we visited
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the studio there was a modest herd of Macs in one of the
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business-like (non-set) rooms. On the question of whether
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they were bought, leased, or donated, I'm modestly sure
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that Scott said they were donated, though it wouldn't
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surprise me if the price of the donation was working
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one or two into appearances in the show."
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Thus, the reckoning of Janet M. Swisher <swsh@midway.uchicaintention. I
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thank each of you for your patience, cooperation, and good humor.
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[BTW, I use a Mac SE and read my Usenet news on Programmers' Pit Stop, a
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public access Usenet BBS in Ann Arbor, Michigan.]
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________________________________
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"Leland. Leland, the time has come for you to seek the path.
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Your soul has set you face to face with the clear light and
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you are now about to experience it in its reality. Wherein
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all things are like the void and cloudless sky and the naked
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spotless intellect is like a transparent vacuum, without
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circumference or center. Leland, in this moment, know yourself
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and abide in that state. Look to the light, Leland. Find the
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light."
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[FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper]
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tuttle@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (David L. Claytor)
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--
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David L. Claytor
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dlc@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us
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...!hela!mudos!dlc
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