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From: RLWALD@pucc.Princeton.EDU (? ?)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac System Suggestions?
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Date: Sat, 25-Apr-87 13:50:23 EDT
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In article <690@unccvax.UUCP>, cbenda@unccvax.UUCP (carl m benda) writes:
> I don't think that the power of the MAC II would be wasted even
>on something as mundane(sp) as wordprocessing.
> Consider a problem I ran into trying to change the font of a
>32 page document using MAC Write and a MAC Plus.  It took the machine
>over 30 minutes to change the font from Geneva to Monaco.
> For more than 30 minutes I had to wait and watch the watch! Even if
>the new MAC II is 6 times the speed of the MAC Plus, I would still
>have 5 minutes... Enough time to get a mug of coffee and read the
>paper.
     
  Ah, but Apple has neatly stepped around this problem with the Mac II.
By making it incompatible with MacWrite, it forces you to use a word
processor that can do such a change swiftly. So the Mac II will
do it even swifterly.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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