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From: fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: New GS ROMS (Sewall%UConnVM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu>
Summary: hmm...
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Date: 26 Aug 89 20:44:50 GMT
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In article <8908250820.AA01009@trout.nosc.mil> lbotez@pro-sol.cts.com (Lynda Botez) writes:
[somebody else writes:]
>>So, what are you holding back for AppleFest -- the MacBoard for the IIgs?
[snip]
>                       I've been told that it would be an extraordinary feat
>of engineering to squeeze the entire Macintosh computer components on one card
>in a rather cramped CPU as small as an Apple IIgs, so I've given up on that
>one.

[snipity snip]
>To top it off, there will be some kind of major Macintosh announcement on
>September 20th (rumored to be the new Mac Laptop computer)...  so I suspect
>we'll be seeing a few of them at the 'Fest as well.

So they can fit the entire thing into a laptop computer, but not into a //gs.
Hmm...

As I recall, the Mac 128 fit on a single logic board that would probably fit
inside the //gs.  At worst, you could put it in a box under the monitor and
just run a flat cable inside to a card or two...

[comments about new computers (the "MacGS")]
>Hopefully it will be cheaper than a Mac II!   -:)

Volkswagens are cheaper than a Mac II...

>Lynda

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