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From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Affordable Macs?
Keywords: mac affordable (cheap) education low-end thanks
Message-ID: <127995@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 16 Nov 89 22:16:45 GMT
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In article <254@spt.entity.com>, mdc@spt.entity.com (Marty Connor) writes:
> I hope we can get some discussion going on what is essential to
> people in a CheapMac, and how it could be positioned for maximum
> effect. 
> 
> The more I think about it the better I like the idea of having machine
> in this class.  In some ways it would be nice if it used 128k ROMS, to
> keep software houses from jumping ship on the Plus, though I imagine
> someone at Apple just screamed when I said that.  Alright, I know my
> plus has to die someday; I could live with 256k ROMS, but of course
> should use a 68000.  

Why? (Other than the obvious issue of cost, a 68020 or, better, an '030
would give the headless Mac owners(oops...that should be HeadlessMac) 
more confidence in having their machine be useful for a longer time.  This
particularly in light of the announced direction that the System/Finder
is going.  Why make a machine *now* that won't be able to use some of 
the more desirable features of 7.0, which is already (pre-)announced.

> no ADB so as not to compete with the SE20?

Unlikely, since Apple committed to the ADB notion a *long* time ago.
(Does use of ADB make the //gs compete with the SE more than the Plus?)


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