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From: cracraft@ccicpg.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Experiences with a new Mac II
Message-ID: <1075@ccicpg.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Jun-87 11:51:14 EDT
Article-I.D.: ccicpg.1075
Posted: Wed Jun 17 11:51:14 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jun-87 01:17:47 EDT
References: <3304@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>
Reply-To: cracraft@ccicpg.UUCP (Stuart Cracraft)
Organization: CCI CPG, Irvine CA
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Keywords: macII,macintosh

In article <3304@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> neil@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Neil Rhodes) writes:
>I received my Mac II Monday, and thought I'd relate my experiences with it.
>
>Apparently color monitors still aren't shipping...

   Same here. The local Apple dealership reports they won't have any
   color monitors until July or August, though they will have third-party
   products until then. They had only the monochrome a few days ago.
>
>After a day and a half of using the machine (and crashing it)...

   A diskette that worked on a Macintosh 512K crashed the Macintosh II.
   The salesman had to pry the diskette out of the internal Mac II drive.
   I have the disk if anyone at Apple wants to duplicate.

   On a timing result, Sargon III on a Macintosh 128K executed a 6-ply search
   of the opening position in 2 minutes 46 seconds. The same program, running
   on a Macintosh II executed a 6-ply search of the opening position in
   47 seconds, a 350% speedup, which seems minor, all things considered.

Stuart

(Standard disclaimer - These are opinions only, from a long-time 
Macintosh owner.)