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From: jsc@ucbvax.ARPA (James Carrington)
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Subject: Re: Rumors ... (and a fact or two!)
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Date: Thu, 14-Mar-85 03:38:09 EST
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> RUMOR?
> 
> Apple gave a forced vacation to employees at their Mac plant. The idea
> is to slow down production to avoid dropping the price. If this is true,
> what ever happened to the idea of a computer for the rest of us?
> 
> I also heard that apple will introduce a Mac with 128K of ROM and 
> double sided 800K floppies. The new ROM is suppose to have all? of the
> finder in it.
> 
They did indeed (or are going to) close the plant for one week. The 
stated goal was to lower the stockpile of Macs they have, since the
demand for personal computers (not just Apple -- industry wide) is
dropping pretty severely.
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					James Steven Carrington
					The INGRES Project
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