Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!natinst!davoli
From: davoli@natinst.com (Russell Davoli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: The New Macs: Greedy Compromises?
Summary: Slots
Message-ID: <16864@natinst.natinst.com>
Date: 30 Nov 90 16:09:24 GMT
References: <37562@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Organization: National Instruments, Austin, TX
Lines: 28

In article <37562@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu writes:
> The real ugly ducklings in the Mac product line were, in retrospect,
> the Mac II -- a 6-slot schoolbus with a VW engine, and the original
> SE -- ever look inside on of those suckers?  By the time a large 

and...
 
> The IIx probably doesn't need to be mentioned ... 
> 
> Bill (johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu)

Maybe for you the Mac II and Mac IIx are ugly schoolbuses, but some
people really do use much of the expansion capability of those machines.
My employer produces a variety of I/O boards for things like digital
I/O, analog I/O (i.e. digitize signal and generating waveforms from
digital data), counter/timers, DMA, and even a DSP board.  There are
people out there using those machines to take and process data, and the
six slot Mac II's are the only Macs that fit their needs.

I'm not saying everybody needs them, but even schoolbuses have their uses.
I think you do have a good point, though, in that many people want/need
the horse power of the Mac II but don't need all the slots.  That's why
there are the IIcx, IIci, and now the IIsi.

Russell Davoli
National Instruments Corp.

Disclaimer: My opinions are my own.