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From: msmiller@world.std.com (Mark S. Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: What's going to happen to the IIcx
Message-ID: <1990Dec1.170223.7309@world.std.com>
Date: 1 Dec 90 17:02:23 GMT
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In article <1990Nov30.214642.26534@Neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie) writes:
[>gsm@mitre.org (Gio Marzot) writes:
[>>About a year ago I heard the IIcx touted as *the* machine for 
[>>expandability and, something like, (alot of) Apple's future efforts would 
[>
[>  Well, Apple does have an upgrade path from the IIcx to the IIci...
[>Part #M0295LL/A, which sells for about $1700 educational...
[>
[>  I just wonder what form factor Apple's 040 machine will take...  

I wouldn't get too worried about your IIcx becoming obsolete. It's
one thing to have an SE or something like that. But the IIcx *IS*
expandable enough to keep up with most of the weirdness Apple will
probably lay on us in the coming years. I figure by this time next
year you'll be able to dump a 25MHz chip in the box for next to
nothing (relatively speaking). Which will take care of the speed
issue.

As for me (for what it's worth), I think I'll leave my IIcx as is and
start saving up for a SparcStation of some kind.

	-MSM
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