My wife and I began to discuss and plan our purchase. I, of course, wanted to get a Mac. The book took me from total newbie to a respectable level of Mac knowledge. The Internet connection had been arranged because of a friend of mine who was moving to Seattle. He and I sat down one day and discussed our wives.
Email is cheaper.
And so it was. His family and my own exchanged email regularly. Some months later we arranged for them to stay with us over the week of Christmas. He had been trying to install Windows 95 at home. During his visit he seemed skeptical of my Mac at first.