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From: 6500erik@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Erik Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 16Mhz Mac Classic?
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Date: 10 Dec 90 21:25:34 GMT
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In article <1990Dec10.031031.24801@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Walk) writes:

> [stuff deleted about 16mhz Classic]
>Also, why did Apple bother to put a ext. floppy port on their new computers?
>How many people actually use this port?  I know that this is mostly on the
>computers for the educational programs, but it has been my experience that
>people wait in line to use the Macs with hard drives (irregardless of the 
>number of floppy drives) and practically totally ignore the Macs wo/ hard
>drives unless they are desparate. (To anyone at UIUC, ever notice the lines
> [more stuff deleted]
>My suggestion, for use on the Mac Classic at least (since this is supposed to 
>be the affordable Mac...), make a 25 pin centronics parrallel port.
> [even more stuff deleted]
>I'd like to hear replies to this.
>					Todd Walk
>					walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
>					walk@mrcne

Personally, I use only the internal and the external floppy drives
on my 512ke, and I do it quite contentedly.  I persist in thinking
that while a hard-disk is fast becoming a necessity (I will have
one soon, too), it is not yet.  If you don't feel the need to be
on "the bleeding edge" of technology, floppies are fine.

As for putting a 25 pin centronics port on a Mac, I believe Apple
already tried that on a machine.  It was called a Lisa.

Erik
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