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From: bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: A Classic Dead End?
Keywords: Classic,System 7.0
Message-ID: <53050@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 18 May 91 16:50:33 GMT
References: <1991May17.153503.21947@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1991May17.162934.29993@midway.uchicago.edu> <24530@oolong.la.locus.com>
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jcav@quads.uchicago.edu (john  cavallino) writes:
|>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>

I'm sorry, but I didn't see a shred of reasonability in your argument.
The Classic does have room to grow for quite some time. With a fairly
inexpensive upgrade, you can put 5 megs in the machine, and run System
7 and two or three medium-large apps all at once, and still have room
for the Finder, DAs, and background printing.

The same goes for the Plus, incidentally, which can run 7.0 even
though Apple hasn't made them in a while. The Classic is almost the
same as the Plus, as much as software can tell, but gives you a little
more RAM (since less ROM has to be patched to run recent systems) and
a much cheaper price tag.

And even when Pluses and Classics are finally obsolete and cannot run
the latest software, they will still run older stuff just as well as
they do today. Ask my landlord, who runs her business on a 512 (not
"E") just fine, thanks.

Your argument makes about as much sense as asking a Honda dealer to
upgrade a two-seater CRX to seat 6, or a video salesman to add stereo
to your VCR.

Apple continues to provide the longest useful product lifespans of
personal computer makers, and some of the most reasonable upgrade
programs. This fact is inarguable.


bill coderre
part of the evil apple plan to take over the world by being better