Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site umn-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!stolaf!mmm!umn-cs!waddingt From: waddingt@umn-cs.UUCP (Jake Waddington ) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Free $80 Inside Macintosh(TM)! Message-ID: <866@umn-cs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 26-Jan-86 15:09:48 EST Article-I.D.: umn-cs.866 Posted: Sun Jan 26 15:09:48 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Jan-86 05:24:16 EST References: <266@gould9.UUCP> <11539@ucbvax.berkeley.edu.BERKELEY.EDU> <11545@ucbvax.berkeley.edu.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: waddingt@umn-cs.UUCP (Jake Waddington ) Organization: Computer Science Dept., U of Minn, Mpls, MN Lines: 25 Keywords: DeLorean, time warp Summary: In article <11545@ucbvax.berkeley.edu.BERKELEY.EDU> mazlack@ernie.UUCP (Lawrence J. Mazlack) writes: > >As an owner of two Lisas, I hardly think that this (Lisa to Mac+ upgrade), is a "sign of good faith" > > (a) Most Lisa owners are already running 1 Meg+ machines. So, memory wise, > there is no gain. > > (b) You would appear to be s... out of luck if you want to run any software > developed to run under the Lisa operating system. (OK if you did it > under Mac Works). > > (c) The 20 Meg hard disk initially sounds appealing. However, I suspect > that most Lisa owners currently own 5 or 10 Meg Profiles or third > party hard drives. So, the HD20 is nice, but what to do with the > Profiles that all ready give good service? > You get an upgrade to the latest machine, at least twice the disk memory in a better drive, A much faster machine for about half price. What more do you want? If you really love your Lisa that much keep it! But, don't complain that Apple isn't treating you right.