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From: kreme@isis.cs.du.edu (Fred Zeats IV)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: New Macintoshes and Apple's Satellite Announcment
Summary: Wow, new machines!  Neato-kean
Message-ID: <1990Oct16.063654.2744@isis.cs.du.edu>
Date: 16 Oct 90 06:36:54 GMT
Reply-To: kreme@isis.UUCP (Fred Zeats IV)
Organization: Pseudo-Dragon Protection League
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Well, I went down and watched Apple roll out its three new machines this
morning.  The SAT-Link was a little fuzzy, and there was a horrid squelch
noise that appeared and disappeared throughout.

Mac IIsi:  A 20MHZ 68030 expandable to 17 Megs.  It uses a new 1/3 height
	Hard Disk internally.  The SuperDrive is standard, of course.  The
	Machine has built in support for four of Apple's Monitors, including
	the Apple RGB High Resolution Monitor (640X480X256).  The unit is
	priced at $3,300 for the CPU box, a high res monitor, 2 Megs of
	RAM and a 40 Meg Hard Drive.  With an 80 Meg HD and 5 Megs of RAM
	the Price is $4,050.  Keyboard is extra.

Mac LC: Available January 91.  This machine is designed for one purpose and
	one purpose only.  Kill the Apple ][ line.  It is being targeted at
	schools (It can emulate an apple //e) and small businesses.  It has
	limited expandability and will cost about $3,000 (with monitor and
	keyboard and 40 Meg drive).  I hope it falls on its face.  The Apple
	//e emulation card is rumored to cost about $1000 extra.

Mac Classic: 8MHZ 68000 expandable to 4Megs of RAM.  This machine replaces
	the Mac SE and the Mac +.  It's two key differences are it is much
	cheaper ($949 for 1 Meg of RAM and 1 3.5 SuperDrive, $1494 for 2
	Meg of RAM and 40 Meg HD) and does not include an expansion slot.

Both the Mac IIsi and the Mac LC come with a new device, a microphone.  The
new system software (7.0 available in June of 1990) will allow sound input
to be treated as text or graphics are now, including cut and paste functions
and full transportability.

I also saw a demo version of Wor PErfect 2.0 (Macintosh of course)  It looks
a lot nicer than the version 1.0 and it didn't crash in five minutes of use
like version 1.0 did at Mac World a few years back (1988).

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