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From: jfr@locus.com (Jon Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: A Classic Dead End?
Keywords: Classic,System 7.0
Message-ID: <24530@oolong.la.locus.com>
Date: 17 May 91 23:19:35 GMT
References: <1991May17.153503.21947@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1991May17.162934.29993@midway.uchicago.edu>
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In article <1991May17.162934.29993@midway.uchicago.edu> jcav@quads.uchicago.edu (john  cavallino) writes:
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>I think that the Classic as currently designed was a bad move on Apple's part.
>Yes, I know they are selling as many as they can build, but they are saddling
>people with a design that has no more room to grow. 
><more stuff deleted>
 
Depends on who owns the ox, I guess.  As an owner of an original 128K 
Mac, I think ALL of these machines are bad moves :-) 
 
However, from Apple's perspective, since they needed to bring the price
down, they had to figure out a way to get people to spend their money
twice... Voila... a non-expandable computer that will over time, have
to be replaced with an Si/Ci/etc.  The LC has similar problems, so putting
the LC in the classic case and taking out the color wouldn't have been
much better, just a bit faster and allowed for more memory.  You have
to decide what you want and what you can afford, they buy it.  Use it.
If you are happy with it and get use out of it, you can't bitch later
(even if you'd like to) when you need to buy a new machine.
 

Jon Rosen