And now we can muse about why Mac never overtook IBM-style machines. I had a Mac Plus with Paradise system external scsi hard drive and it was great (1986 IIRC

And now we can muse about why Mac never overtook IBM-style machines. I had a Mac Plus with Paradise system external scsi hard drive and it was great (1986 IIRC). 1 MB ram, etc. A couple years later I was talking to a secretary in grad school, and asked her why she didn't prefer Macs. She said she typed 100 words a minute and always had to wait for the Mac to catch up- making it unusable. Back then, secretaries really had control of office equipment. All typing was done by secretaries- from hand-written copy by the authors. So, at least part of why Mac may have failed to overtake DOS machines was that they only had a great GUI, at a time when processors were too slow to redraw the screen quickly, and they had no "character mode" which would have allowed the secretaries to use them. Thus, companies wanted DOS (except for graphics- Macs were used by graphic departments).