Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!ucdavis!csusac!csuchico.edu!walleye!tempest From: tempest@walleye.uucp (Kenneth K.F. Lui) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: '040 Mac Message-ID: <1990Sep28.074958.2984@ecst.csuchico.edu> Date: 28 Sep 90 07:49:58 GMT References: <1990Sep26.181933.239@fog.ann-arbor.mi.us> <1990Sep27.175849.20915@eng.umd.edu> Sender: news@ecst.csuchico.edu (USENET) Reply-To: tempest@walleye.UUCP (Kenneth K.F. Lui) Organization: California State University, Chico Lines: 32 In article dan@s3sol.scubed (Dan Peterka) writes: >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 If I were to buy an '040 Macintosh, it better have more than 3 slots. Here's what I would have in the slots: Video (Accelerator for video--depends if video board has accelerator already.) RadiusTV Multiple comm ports Probably GPIB or some such interface for a scanner Three is too limiting, IMO; and unless I were really low on cash and desperately needed a II, I would never get a IIc*. >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? I think the above is a _great_ idea. Instead of an ugly box that looks like a major kludge, it should slip and lock against the cpu and the whole thing movable as one unit. None of this "place on the side, bottom, or top of the Mac as a separate unit." If this expansion box were available, I don't have any problems buying a IIc*. Ken .............................................................________________. tempest@ecst.csuchico.edu, tempest@walleye.ecst.csuchico.edu,|Kenneth K.F. Lui| tempest@sutro.sfsu.edu, tempest@wet.UUCP |________________|