Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!LCAMPBELL@dec-marlboro From: LCAMPBELL%dec-marlboro@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Another Mac Review Message-ID: <16282@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Feb-84 19:40:00 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.16282 Posted: Wed Feb 1 19:40:00 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 02:34:35 EST Lines: 31 From: Larry CampbellI went to the big splash the Boston Computer Society put on Monday night. Jobs, Wozniak, and about nine of Mac's developers were on hand; they put on a *really slick* multimedia show that was quite fun. Before the main session there were handson tutorials; I got about twenty minutes to play. I have only a few things to add (Tom Wood's message was complete and 99% accurate): 1) The ONLY memory expansion planned is the replacement (for a fee) of the 64K chips with 256K chips, yielding 512K. 2) The "upgrade" from Lisa 1 to Lisa 2/5 (which consists of replacing the two 5-1/4" drives with one 3-1/2" drive, and a new skin) is free, not $595 as previously reported. (A friend of mine, who paid $10,000 for a Lisa 1 eight months ago, is not impressed.) 3) Don't know if this software is generally availble, but at the show they had Mac speaking to the audience. The quality of the voice was pretty good. 4) The T-shirt the girl in the commercial wore has an impressionistic sketch of a Mac on the front, and the word "Macintosh" (the 'i' is lower case) on the back. They were giving them out before the show; I'm wearing mine now. 5) And yes, although I wish it had more memory, it's an impressive accomplishment. Prediction: they'll sell a million of them. --------