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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: drop the floppy port? (was: 16Mhz Mac Classic?)
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Date: 18 Dec 90 07:42:34 GMT
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What I think is _really_ missing from the Mac line is true diskless
machines. How much would a Classic, designed to boot from a server, with
built in twisted pair (= cheap cables) ethernet and localtalk, but _no_
disk drives or ports cost? A Classic Lite, perhaps?

A fast server plus 5-10 of these could be pretty cost-effective (especially
if some cheap way of attaching laser printers to ethernetted Macs was included).
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu