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From: spector@acf4.UUCP (David HM Spector)
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Subject: Re: In Box  ???
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Date: Fri, 31-Jan-86 15:06:00 EST
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Here's the story about the (one of the) mailers that were shown at
the Macworld/AppleWorld Expo.

The niftiest mailer I saw was from (suprise!) THINK technologies, and was
indeed implemented as a desk ornament.  But there's a catch, that it is that 
is a >100Kb desk ornament (custom segloader) and it needs a dedicated 
macintosh to serve as a mail server.  It will work with a variety of 
file server and hard disk drive to store mail, and has BBOARD facilities.

All in all, it was sexy. The bad news is, it doesn't support 822 or 920
style mail, when I mentioned this to the rep from THINK he said
something on the order of "Oh, thats a good idea, we didn't think about
that...", but assured me that they would consider it seriously in light
of Apple's commitment to internetworking with DEC/IBM/et al.


Now for the really cool info: on Levco's killer Macintosh.
For around 6k (yes Virginia, $6000) you can get your Macintosh or
Macintosh Plus upgraded to have 4 Mb memory, 20Mb internal drive, 
16Mhz 68020 and 16Mhz 68881.  I asked them about its speed, and they
said it was around 2.5 MIPS, using Mac C from Consuliar with the
68020 option turned on in the compiler.  I got to play with it for
a few mins, and its was to say the least it was FAST. 




				David HM Spector
				NYU/acf Systems Group