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From: bradn@tekig4.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: An SE Owner's Comments
Message-ID: <1365@tekig4.TEK.COM>
Date: Tue, 24-Mar-87 12:31:20 EST
Article-I.D.: tekig4.1365
Posted: Tue Mar 24 12:31:20 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 26-Mar-87 04:47:44 EST
Reply-To: bradn@tekig4.UUCP (Bradford Needham)
Distribution: world
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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Keywords: fan noise mouse tracking 256K roms

Here's my two cents' worth as a new owner of an SE (dual floppy model).
My previous system was a 512K Mac (old Roms) with an external floppy drive.

The Fan is annoying.  It's a small, high-speed fan that whines.  I preferred
Kensington's fan -- it was louder, but it produced white noise rather than
a whine.  It's hard to listen to Mac-generated music with that whine in the
background.

Some misguided engineer seems to have "fixed" the mouse tracking during
disk accesses.  Now, instead of slowing down during disk activity, the
pointer makes huge leaps, making it impossible to position the mouse during
disk accesses (e.g., bringing up a dialog that you want to point at).
The problem is especially noticable when initializing a disk.  Maybe my mouse
is broken -- has anyone else seen this problem?

The keyboard has a very good feel and has bumps on the D and K keys (for
us touch-typists).

I've had no unexpected compatibility problems.  I've run the following
programs under the new system:

	MacWrite 4.5
	Kermit 0.8(33)
	Binhex 4.0
	SuperPaint 1.0
	AAIS Prolog M1.10
	MacDraw 1.7
	Fontastic 2.7
	MacTerminal 2.0 (the previous version didn't work)

I've sent for Mac+ upgrades to the following stuff:

	Manx Aztec C V1.06G (MFS to HFS)
	Copy II Mac (MFS to HFS)
	ThunderScan (Imagewriter I to II, new cables)

Did all you Mac+ owners notice that the SE (and Mac II)'s 256K Rom will never
be put in Mac+'s?  Now you know what us "obsolete" old Rom owners have felt
like for the past year.  I hope the experience makes a few die-hard technoids
realize that owners of old equipment are not stupid, poverty-stricken, or
backward.


Brad Needham
bradn@tekig4.TEK.COM
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