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From: phipps@fortune.UUCP (Clay Phipps)
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Subject: Re: The MAC Is Coming - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 16:39:50 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 30 16:39:50 1984
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The Mac looks like a technically virtuous machine in many ways.
What I personally find astounding is its total lack of expansion slots.
I'm convinced that the ability to expand the capabilities of a machine
without having to go to the original vendor is one of the major reasons
for the popularity of the IBM, Apple ][, and S-100 micros.
[this is a personal opinion that may or may not reflect the point of view
of Fortune Systems]

Having taught IBM that important lesson, I'm astonished that Apple
abandoned that principle for the Macintosh, a machine which I believe
to be intended for head-on competition with the IBM PC (not PCjr).
I'm not a hardware person, but how much can a handful of expansion slots cost ?

The lack of color graphics in a non-business-oriented machine by Apple
also comes as a surprise, as has been observed elsewhere.

Is the presently available model of the Macintosh really the machine
that Apple intends to use to keep IBM PCs away from home and university ?

-- Clay Phipps

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