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From: jon@qusavx.UUCP (Jon Lewis)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Microcraft Dimension 68000
Message-ID: <195@qusavx.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Jul-84 09:11:30 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 17 09:11:30 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Jul-84 02:35:14 EDT
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Organization: Quantime Corp., Cincinnati, Ohio
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I too have been looking for information on this perfect sounding
personal computer which, at least according to the ads, can run
virtually any and all software ever created.  Yesterday, I stumbled
across a journal reviews of the beast which says, it does in fact do
what it says it can do, and quite well, too . . . however, you gotta
pay the price.  Apparently, for each type of software you want to run
(CPM, Apple, MS-DOS, TRS, UNIX, and who knows what else) you have to
buy a special plug in board priced at $495 apiece.  And if you want to
run Lotus 1-2-3, you have to upgrade memory to 512K at a cost of $750.
Plus the machine comes without a monitor, so more $$ there, and its
base price is slightly higher than a base IBM PC.

That said, it is supposed to function quite well, comes with C
programming language and at least one other language (which I forget,
as I was too appalled by the price list for items it didn't have to  
remember what it did include).

It still sounds awful pretty in the ads, but I just don't got da bucks.

		-Jon Lewis, Quantime Corporation, Cincinnati