Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site randvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!randvax!clark From: clark@randvax.ARPA (John Clark) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Want MacSlots? Get a Lisa 2 Message-ID: <1662@randvax.ARPA> Date: Tue, 31-Jan-84 18:11:52 EST Article-I.D.: randvax.1662 Posted: Tue Jan 31 18:11:52 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 03:40:40 EST Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica Lines: 33 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 {decvax, vortex}!randvax!clark