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From: jkain@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Jeff)
Subject: Re: Why buy a Classic over a Plus?
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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 91 04:35:20 GMT
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cyf@druco.ATT.COM (Charlie Farwell) writes:

>	However, I'm looking at replacing my Plus logic board for ~$350
>	vs. buying a Classic for ~$850, and I'm trying to find a reason
>	why I should spend the extra $500.

The Classic is slightly faster than the Plus, and it has a much faster
SCSI port.  You'll notice the SCSI improvement a lot if you add an
accelerator to your Classic - I have an accelerator on my Plus and the
throughput to/from my hard drive is still slow due to the SCSI
bottleneck.

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