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From: mwm@eris.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New Macs
Message-ID: <2673@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Tue, 3-Mar-87 17:39:11 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  3 17:39:11 1987
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In article <148@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> ali@rocky.ARPA (Ali Ozer) writes:
>Macintosh II, $5500, comes with SIX slots, OPTIONAL with color boards,
>  OPTIONAL networking capability, OPTIONAL MS-DOS compatibility, 
>  and Unix System V port end of summer. (I thought for $40000 you were 
>  going to get COLOR. Well rumors do lie.)

We got the consortium price (didn't Stanford?): $3k, $4k with hd, but
you still have to buy a monitor and keyboard. Two advantages over a
turbo amiga: builtin scuzzy, and 16MHz 68020 instead of 14+.

Max memory is 8.5Meg (sound familiar?). First color option gets you 16
out of 16Meg of colors; extended version gets you 256 out of the same
No HAM mentioned.

>
>Macintosh SE, Price ?, comes with ONE slot and hard disk.

The consortium price is $180 ($2300 with hd). Note that the SE has
some magic mac-bus, but the Mac ][ has a Nu-Bus Isn't comptability a
wonderful thing?

Unless you really nead that big pallet on the ][, or want to run their
SysV/Finder/4BSD hybrid, the A2000 looks like a better machine (at a
better price) than either of the new Macs. Nuts, the A1000 looks like 
better machine.

I expect them to sell a lot of New Macs, anyway.

	<mike



But I'll survive, no you won't catch me,		Mike Meyer
I'll resist the urge that is tempting me,		ucbvax!mwm
I'll avert my eyes, keep you off my knee,		mwm@berkeley.edu
But it feels so good when you talk to me.		mwm@ucbjade.BITNET