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From: roberts@cognos.uucp (Robert Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Upgrade your Mac 512 now!
Message-ID: <600@cognos.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-Apr-87 11:41:40 EST
Article-I.D.: cognos.600
Posted: Fri Apr 24 11:41:40 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Apr-87 11:45:49 EST
References: <3022@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>
Reply-To: roberts@cognos.UUCP (Robert Stanley)
Organization: Cognos Incorporated, Ottawa, Canada
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Summary: ROM upgrades and the Lisa (Mac/XL)

In article <3022@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> jww@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Joel West) writes:

>From previous discussions, it's clear that there are some owners of
>stock Macintosh 512's on the net.  I would like to suggest that if
>you plan to keep and continue to use your Macintosh 512, you
>should now order a Level-1 upgrade to the 128K ROM.

Sadly, there is another group of users for whom this option doesn't exist,
those who have a Lisa with the Mac/XL upgrade (new ROMs and MacWorks).  I have
no wish or intention of giving up my machine, and am more than prepared to
free a few 100K of memory (I have 4Mb on the 68000, plus a pair of 68020
co-processor boards with 4Mb and 8Mb).  No trade-in came close to covering
the functionality of this system, with larger screen, big disk, etc.

Apple's response is that I should buy a newer Mac (plus, SE, II), but to gain
the functionality I currently have I would have to add a big screen, and some
largish upgrades, for a total price in the $10K range.  When does the new
software become worth it, when the existing equipment works so wonderfully?  My
only problem in several years has been broken keyboards.

Just thought that I would be an unquiet martyr to the advancing state of the
art; my apologies to the net.

<< there's no future in time travel, don't 'cher know? >>

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