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From: tecot@apple.UUCP (Ed Tecot)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: MacWorld Show impression
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Date: Wed, 27-Aug-86 21:59:51 EDT
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In article <1466@oddjob.UUCP> mrl@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson) writes:
>>For the truly extravagant, it's worth noting that the Big Picture is
>>Prodigy 4 compatible.  Let's see: Prodigy 4 = $6995, Big Picture = $1595
>>(show price), Mac Plus = $1299 (developer's price).  So, for less than $10K,
>>you could blow your mind completely.  Oh, but you'd probably want a SCSI disk
>>or two...
>How much for a 70MB disk?  A couple thousand, I'd guess.  And a backup
>tape drive?  Another grand.  Sounds like you're talking $13K-$14K.
>For that price, you could get a standalone Sun Workstation....


Yes, but I'd rather have the Prodigy 4 - it can run circles around a Sun.
(You may think I'm joking, but benchmarks here show the Prodigy 4 as
being faster than any workstation to date; about 1/3 the MIPS of a Cray 1-S)

Of course I have yet to see UltraRogue for the Mac :-)

						_emt