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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: YAJR (Rocky)
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Date: Fri, 13-Dec-85 21:52:29 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 13 21:52:29 1985
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Here is Yet Another January Rumour.  This is told to me over the
phone by someone who claimed to have a sheet of paper in front
of him from Apple.  This was a description to developers of the
machine that will be announced in January.

-------------------- begin rumour --------------------------
The code name of the machine is "Rocky".  There is no mention of
what it will be called when released.

Features:

	o 800k drives
	o 1 Meg, expandable to 4 Meg when 1 Meg chips available
	o HFS in rom
	o SCSI
	o Looks like standard Mac except that the back is a little
	  longer, and the keyboard a little different

The new roms are about 50% faster, with major improvements in quickdraw
and the resource manager ( this matches what Andy Hertzfeld said in
his MAUG(tm) conference ).  The fellow who told me this had details of
the form "doing xxx in quickdraw from a yyy to a zzz is n% faster", but I
didn't write these down.

---------------------- end rumour ------------------------------
There is no mention of an upgrade policy, but he has heard from a seperate
source that to go from normal 512k Mac to Rocky is $~1000.

He also said the new roms are named Laurel and Hardy ( for Low and
High ), but this sounds more like the sort of thing Amiga would do! :-)

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Tim Smith       sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim || ima!ism780!tim || ihnp4!cithep!tim