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From: bart@reed.UUCP (Bart Massey)
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Subject: Re: Why not just the ROMs? (Re: Mac+ Upgrade query)
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Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 11:43:40 EST
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> This may have been discussed before; if so, I missed it.  Why is the
> ROM upgrade tied to upgrading the internal drive to the two-sided
> version?  The new ROMs apparently handle external single-sided drives
> OK, so why not the old internal as well?  The additional cost of the new
> drive makes the total cost very high compared to what the new ROMs 
> alone should cost.  (I hope very much this is not the reason behind
> this, or Apple will lose face once again.)  Not to mention disk hassles
> (assuming that not all of my "single-sided" disks will be good enough for 
> two-sided use.)
> Andy Hogan   Rosemount, Inc.   Mpls MN
> path: ...ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!mmm!rosevax!hogan

Why did Apple choose not to exchange the old keyboards, when they agreed
to change the logic boards?  Surely one is as useful as the other to them...

Why did Apple quit bundling MacWrite and MacPaint with Macs?  If it's
considered worthless software by them, they should be able to afford to
bundle it.  If it isn't, I guess they just decided they couldn't afford
to do us any more favors...

Why has Apple still not come out with the C and Pascal development systems
running on the Mac which it promised when the Mac FIRST CAME OUT, n years
ago?

Why in #$%^ would engineers screw up so bad as to make the write-protect
tab overrideable in software??

Now don't get the idea that I dislike the Mac.  I'm an almost religious
macfanatic.  I just thought maybe you'd get the picture.  Apple fairly
regularly acts like it's being driven by drunken madmen.  One must simply
learn to like it or lump it.

BTW, about the ROM upgrade, I'm told that the AUC schools *begged* en
masse to have it unbundled for their *thousands* of macs that they
couldn't afford to upgrade at all otherwise.  Apple said no way.  Just
a rumor...

						Bart Massey
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					Bart Massey
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