Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site orca.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!brucec From: brucec@orca.UUCP (Bruce Cohen) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Mac Review Message-ID: <513@orca.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 13:21:20 EST Article-I.D.: orca.513 Posted: Mon Jan 30 13:21:20 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Feb-84 13:10:14 EST Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR. Lines: 23 In regard to the Macintosh specs sent out by David.Anderson@CMU: one minor quibble. The mouse is mechanical, not optical. I played with a Macintosh for half an hour or so, and was curious about the mouse. It uses a plastic ball just like the Lisa mouse. In fact, it looks and feels like the Lisa mouse with a new housing, even to the occasional slippage. Mac is indeed faster than Lisa, and Apple seems to have learned from some of the mistakes they made in the Lisa operator interface. I did succeed in crashing the machine, by sticking it in a loop where it kept asking for a diskette I didn't have, and wouldn't allow me to abort the operation. The salesperson had to power the machine down and reboot. On the other hand, my six-year-old couldn't kill Macpaint, though he tried. I asked about Lisa II, and was told that the store would get some in about a month. Still no definite pricing, but the rumor is that a minimum system, without a hard disk, will cost ~$3500, and a real system with a 10 meg hard disk will cost ~$6000 with the minimal software. Bruce Cohen UUCP: ...!teklabs!tekecs!brucec CSNET: tekecs!brucec@tektronix ARPA: tekecs!brucec.tektronix@rand-relay