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From: alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: MAC clones. The argument continues....
Message-ID: <1989Nov1.023933.27253@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us>
Date: 1 Nov 89 02:39:33 GMT
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Well, I use a Mac Clone every day.  It runs PageMaker, Crystal Quest
(including sound effects !?),
Sound Manager, Aask, many inits, Suitcase, ATM, just 'bout everything
but TOPS and LL-Mac.   It's about 1.05 times the speed of an SE,
self-boots from the hard-disk, reads/writes Mac disks faster than an SE
and has 1Meg.  IT'll have 4 megs in a coupla days, and $100 from now
it'll run the speed of the Portable.  And I have about $1000 invested in
it.  You could have a 4-meg system with a decent hard drive for under
$3K, including that speedup.  Ditto the price for a portable Mac
compatible, with hard-drive.

It says "Atari 520ST" and "Spectre GCR" on it, but I love it.

		Alex Pournelle
	
		"Dave Small isn't Ghod, but he's apprenticing..."