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From: jon@qusavx.UUCP (Jon Lewis)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Microcraft Dimension 68000
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Date: Tue, 17-Jul-84 14:45:28 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 17 14:45:28 1984
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The ads for this personal computer make it sound quite wonderful
indeed, and I have been keeping my eyes open for any articles or
reviews about it.  Saw the first one last night, in one of those
miserable excuses for a computer magazine that are really only
forums for publicity displays.  Anyway, the information there was
that the Dimension was indeed capable of running virtually any
software that's ever been developed, BUT . . . you gotta pay for
it.

The base model does not include a monitor and is priced higher 
than a base model IBM PC.  Then, to make your Dimension compatible,
you'll need plug in boards priced at $495 each (one for CP/M, one
for MS-DOS, etc), and to run Lotus 1-2-3 you'll need to upgrade
memory to 512K, another $750.

If you have the money, it sounds like a fantastic product.

If, if, if . . .


What I'd like to know is why no major journal has looked at this
thing yet . . . in last month's BYTE, Jerry Pournelle mentioned
seeing it at a recent computer show, apparently his first glimpse
of it, and yet Microcraft has been advertising in BYTE for months
now.