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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Any GOOD reasons to buy Classic vs.
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Date: 20 Oct 90 18:54:00 GMT
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/* Written  4:05 am  Oct 20, 1990 by wwtaroli@rodan.acs.syr.edu in m.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.mac.misc */
In response to the question "Why a Classic vs. a Plus?", Scott Howard writes:
>
>Mac Plus                  Mac Classic
>
>Brain Dead SCSI port      Normal SCSI port, much faster.
>128 K ROMS                512 K ROMS


What's in the 512K ROMS of the Classic?  Is it really true that Apple
rewrote quickdraw to work with 68000-class monochrome machines?  If
that's true, then would it be possible (in theory) to modify the
Classic to display 8 shades of grey on the screen?