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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Why not just the ROMs? (Re: Mac+ Upgrade query)
Message-ID: <752@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 15:48:49 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 24 15:48:49 1986
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In article <2536@reed.UUCP> bart@reed.UUCP (Bart Massey) writes:
>
>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...
>
They are still bundled with Macs.  They are not bundled with 
Mac+s.  I have heard that the reason they did this is so that 
people will develope better word processing software for the 
Mac+.  Why should a developer go to the bother of developing a 
good WP for a machine when everyone who has the machine has a 
free one that is almost good enough?  

They do have some pricing problems.  For example, looking at 
prices around here, if I wanted to get a new Mac+ and MacWrite 
and MacPaint, the cheapest way to do it seems to be to buy a 512K 
Mac, which has them bundled and a full Mac+ upgrade.  This comes 
out around $100 cheaper!  


>Why in #$%^ would engineers screw up so bad as to make the write-protect
>tab overrideable in software??
>
They wouldn't.
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Tim Smith       sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim || ima!ism780!tim || ihnp4!cithep!tim