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From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: What's the next step?
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Date: Wed, 21-Nov-84 15:30:30 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 21 15:30:30 1984
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I agree... this is an extremely exciting period.  But it reminds me of the
ancient Chinese curse, "May you live in exciting times."  The nerve-racking
questions of what to get have been a constant source of self-reflection; I'm
sure that whatever my decision is, I'll kick myself at sometime later.

The major factors to include in your purchase plan are:

	1) Ability to do the tasks you WILL be doing the most.

	2) Ability to upgrade later.

I can tell you how I reached my decision:  I am buying a Fat Mac with a
Imagewriter and a 1200 baud terminal.  I am also buying the external drive
-- I could probably get by without it, using RAMdisk (thanks to whoever
posted the sources!!), but I think it might be helpful in some cases.  The
drawbacks for buying this package: 1) Current Mac has no jack for later
monitors (color, larger), and 2) no hard disk.  I have decided not to wait
for a Mac with these features because 1) Color, to me, is not very useful,
and my eyes are good, and 2) since I'm not doing programming ON the Mac (at
this time), disk intensive activity should be at a minimum (however, a)
databases are a definite possibility, and b) I will be downloading a lot of
net.sources and fa.info-mac sources onto it).

Oh well, one man's opinion....

                  "A power so great, it can only be used for Good or Evil!"

					Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
					John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
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