Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!fortune!phipps From: phipps@fortune.UUCP (Clay Phipps) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: The MAC Is Coming - (nf) Message-ID: <2374@fortune.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 16:39:50 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.2374 Posted: Mon Jan 30 16:39:50 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Feb-84 11:21:35 EST References: <5097@uiucdcs.UUCP> Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 25 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 -- {allegra,amd70,cbosgd,dsd,floyd,harpo,hpda,ihnp4, megatest,nsc,oliveb,sri-unix,twg,varian,VisiA,wdl1} !fortune!phipps