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From: jhs@ccieng5.UUCP (John Sentiff)
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Subject: The MAC Is Coming
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Date: Tue, 17-Jan-84 12:43:07 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 17 12:43:07 1984
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	A friend of mine has just finished a product familiarization
course for a local computer store that carries APPLE computers (He is
a salesman there). He has told me that APPLE will announce the MacIntosh
computer on Tuesday, January 24, 1984. He has already placed an order
for himself but he would not reveal much about the MAC (Big Brother IS
watching, you know :-)).
	He did say it was a portable, 68000-based system with 128K of
memory. It is set up to accomodate 256K DRAMs when they become available
and should cost about $3K when configured with a printer and interface.
He then told me that I probably would NOT want one because of another
announcement due out around the same time. I had told him earlier that
I thought a $7,000 LISA was priced about twice what it was worth. His
parting words to me were that after the new announcement I would be
priced about what I thought it was worth.
	Dare we believe ... a $3500 LISA.
	Has anyone heard anything concerning either of these?

					John Sentiff
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