Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!salt.acc.com!ucsd!scubed!dan From: dan@s3sol.scubed (Dan Peterka) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: '040 Mac Message-ID: Date: 27 Sep 90 22:02:40 GMT References: <1990Sep26.181933.239@fog.ann-arbor.mi.us> <1990Sep27.175849.20915@eng.umd.edu> Sender: usenet@scubed.SCUBED.COM Organization: /users/csd/dan/.organization Lines: 19 In-reply-to: russotto@eng.umd.edu's message of 27 Sep 90 17:58:49 GMT >Eventually, I'd bet, both. Initially, probably only in the II case because >the power-hungry people who would buy such a beast while it was still >list price would probably want all the slots. >-- >Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu Speaking of slots - how many of you have ever seen someone use more than 3 slots? Enough to make it worth Apple's while to sell a big box like the IIx and IIfx? Seems like an Nubus expansion cabinet concept would be a better idea to reduce manufacturing and inventory costs - or does this only make sense to non-marketing types? -- _________________________________________________________________________ Dan Peterka S-CUBED 3398 Carmel Mtn Rd. dan@scubed.scubed.com (619) 587-8338 San Diego, CA 92121 _________________________________________________________________________