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From: mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (Michael Ross)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Free $80 Inside Macintosh(TM)!
Message-ID: <455@mmm.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 16:31:37 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  4 16:31:37 1986
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References: <491@spice.cs.cmu.edu>
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In article <491@spice.cs.cmu.edu> tdn@spice.cs.cmu.edu.UUCP writes:
>> 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?
>
>Aren't you forgetting something?  The Lisa 1 (which cost $10,000) had *two*
>5.25" disk drives which stored somewhere between 700K and 800K per diskette.
>Anyone who upgraded from a Lisa to a Lisa 2 lost about 3/4 of their on-line
>removable storage.  Upgrading to a Mac+ reduces this figure to slightly less
>than 1/2, and certainly doesn't give Lisa 1 owners more floppy disk storage
>than they had originally.
>
>                                        -- Thomas Newton
>                                           Thomas.Newton@spice.cs.cmu.edu

True, but the new drives are MUCH more reliable. Those old twiggies in
the Lisa 1 were terrible. Out of the six we had on three Lisas, about
eight of them went bad. They kept coming out of alignment. Apple's 
recommended cure was to get them back in alignment and super-glue them.

	--MKR