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Subject: Re: Another Mac Review
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Date: Wed, 1-Feb-84 19:40:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  1 19:40:00 1984
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From:  Larry Campbell 

I 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.
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