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From: urban@spp2.UUCP (Mike Urban)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: How to Spend Money?
Message-ID: <952@spp2.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Sep-86 19:09:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: spp2.952
Posted: Mon Sep 15 19:09:26 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 17-Sep-86 01:58:03 EDT
Reply-To: urban@spp2.UUCP (Mike Urban)
Organization: TRW, Redondo Beach  CA
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Well, I have a few extra bucks to spend, and a lot of water has
gone under the proverbial bridge since I bought my 512K mac a couple
of years ago.  There are two obvious paths to take at this point,
but I don't think I want to spend the money doing both...

1) I can upgrade my Mac to a Mac+ (possible memory upgrade)
2) I can buy some variety of hard disk.

I see the following points:

(favoring upgrade)
Increasing amount of software that wants to live with the new
roms (Servant, for example, right?).

Increased 800k disk drives.

SCSI port to support a *later* hard disk addition (the best hard
disks are SCSIfied nowadays).

(favoring disk)
A Mac+ isn't terribly interesting without a hard disk.

Things like C compilers, public domain M2 compilers, TeX, and the like
are very painful to use without plenty of disk space.

I'm a lot more tired of swapping diskettes around than I am
perturbed by the slow but sure demise of the vanilla 512K Mac.

(other considerations)

I should wait until after the usual price shakeup and product
announcements that happen every January.

ThunderScan won't work on a Mac+ because the printer port doesn't
have a power pin any more (is this true?).

My 400k external floppy gets trashed/sold either way, doesn't it?
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So...what do people think I oughta do, and why?
IMPORTANT NOTE: send your reply to ME, not the whole net.  I'll
summarize responses if there are many.
-- 

   Mike Urban
	...!trwrb!trwspp!spp2!urban 

"You're in a maze of twisty UUCP connections, all alike"