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From: clark@randvax.ARPA (John Clark)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Want MacSlots? Get a Lisa 2
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Date: Tue, 31-Jan-84 18:11:52 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 31 18:11:52 1984
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So the MacApple doesn't have expansion slots?!

Given Apple's pricing structure, if you like the Mac but want slots, you
might be better off buying a Lisa 2.  For about $1K more than the Mac, you
get (among other things) a machine that supposedly will run all Mac
software, plus a bigger monitor (12 in vs 9 in), more RAM (512K vs 128K)
and more RAM expandability (to 1M vs 512K), three expansion slots, and a
keyboard with a numeric pad already built-in.  Throw in some more $$$, and
you can even get the hard disk you always wanted.

Of course, the Lisa doesn't have the Mac's beer-cooler tote bag.

I wonder how much hardware expansion you can do thru a high speed serial
port (eg, the Mac's 422 port).  The hype I hear about the AppleBus is that
it will pretty much eliminate the need for traditional expansion slots.
I'll have to be convinced of that.  It's claimed in the latest InfoWorld
(2/13/84-Jobs and Mac on the cover) that Tecmar will have an expansion box
available...

That issue of InfoWorld conveys the unmistakeable impression of true
MacLove.  Having recently gotten a hands-on dealer MacDemo (sorry--I can't
resist), I confess to similar feelings.  How can you get emotional about a
micro?  My more rational side tells me I don't really need all that hand-
holding, all those cute icons, etc, etc.  Give me a decent
keyboard/terminal, and maybe Un*x, and I can do anything I need/want.
Typing commands doesn't bother me.  But, jeeze, that Mac sure is FUN.  I
long ago gave in to emotion in the purchase of cars; maybe that's my fate
in micros, too...

-- John Clark
   clark@rand-unix
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