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From: chuq@sun.uucp (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Macintosh Plus [ serial port change ]
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Date: Fri, 17-Jan-86 12:56:17 EST
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> In reply to <593@harvard.UUCP> matthews@harvard.UUCP (Jim Matthews):
> 
> >	I got a peek at a Mac Plus yesterday, and it's pretty much
> >what the rumors have projected: an old mac with new ROM, a double-sided
> >drive, 1 Meg RAM, and a SCSI interface.  The modem and printer ports
> >are little round connectors, making room for the SCSI port.
> 
> There had been rumors to this effect on the net.  Now they seem to be verified.
> Apple has made all of our cables obsolete!  This is especially sad for the
> special interfaces that clamp to the back of the Mac (like Assimilation's MIDI).

Uh, I hate to rain on your parade, but Apple isn't quite that dumb. All of
the Mac+ machines I saw at MacExpo yesterday had converter cables from the old
to the new format. The Paradise people said they'd be shipped with the
machines for the forseable future. This is a non-problem with an obvious
solution -- I'm suprised that nobody out there expected Apple to think of it.
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