Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!rex!ames!ncar!tank!xdab From: xdab@tank.uchicago.edu (David Baird) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: MacIIci Message-ID: <6520@tank.uchicago.edu> Date: 3 Dec 89 03:57:39 GMT References: <0ZREShW00UoL4m4HUp@andrew.cmu.edu> Reply-To: xdab@tank.uchicago.edu (David Baird) Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 26 In article <0ZREShW00UoL4m4HUp@andrew.cmu.edu> bs1k+@andrew.cmu.edu (Bryan Todd Schmersal) writes: >I'm going to get a MacII in the near future and was considering getting a >IIci, but my father (who is the major financer of the project) says that >there are a lot of software incompatabilities. Is this true? I'm sure that >even if it is there will be updates to fix the bugs. >I just generally need to convince him that the ci is better than the cx, if >in fact it is. So any comments/suggestions/other would be useful. > >Thanks in advance, >SMURF I have a IIci and have not found any program incompatibility with it. Every program that was running on my SE is now running on the IIci. This includes Pagemaker Microsoft Word, Excel WordPerfect VersaTerm MicroPhone II SuperPaint 2.0 I hope this helps. I like the machine, expecially when working with tables in Word 4.0. David Baird