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From: imp@crayview.msi.umn.edu (Chuck Lukaszewski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: MacWorks Plus
Keywords: lisa xl macworks obsolete
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Date: 4 Aug 88 18:51:23 GMT
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MacWorks Plus is now available from Sun Remarketing in Utah at (800) 821-3221.

It is a complete emulation of the Macintosh Plus for the Lisa/Mac XL computers.
It has been thoroughly tested with just about every available Mac software
package, including System Software 6.0 (the only bugs here are Apple's...),
Hypercard 1.2, Excel 1.5, Tops 2.0, Inbox, Microsoft Mail, Appleshare, Full-
Write Professional, Word 3.02...

MacWorks Plus requires a Lisa/Mac XL with 1Mb RAM (expandable to 2Mb).  It will
support an internal 400K or 800K drive (including booting directly from floppy
disks).  It supports internal 5, 10, 20, 30 or 40 Meg hard disks, and auto-
matically drives as many external hard disks as you have connected (the lisa
supports up to six external hard disks in addition to the internal).  All hard
support full HFS, with *minimal* (~200K) loss to the operating system.

At home I run a 2Mb Mac XL with an internal 800K drive, an internal 20Mb hard
disk and an external 10Mb hard disk.  Via Tops, I mount the 170Mb fixed disk and
40Mb removable disk that are connected to my Mac SE.  I observe that IO-bound
development systems like MPW (bleachk!) complete compile-link cycles on large
compiles/links 45 seconds to a minute faster on the Lisa.  This is due to the
on-board caching in the 20Mb hard disk.

Why bother?

Because you can buy a brand new (box has never been opened) Lisa or Mac XL with
a 20Mb hard disk, 800K floppy and MacWorks Plus from Sun Remarketing for $1595.
Even if you cannot stand the idea of using a Lisa for application work, it is
a really competitive option for an Appleshare or Tops fileserver.  Put it in a
back room, hook up as many hard disks as you want, and run an AppleTalk line
out.  Unless you are a certified developer, that price is going to be at least
a couple of hundred dollars less than the comparable Mac Plus/SE system.

Or, let's say you need a 2Mb RAM machine to run FullWrite on, and you cannot
get the SIMMs for your machine.  Well, Lisa memory expansions are available now
(it's an obsolete machine, remember?  it doesn't use SIMMs).

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I guess I'll get the bias out of the way.  Yes, I am an interested party.  I
wrote the program.  But my interest is in the technical chore of getting the
Lisa to be a Plus.  I don't carry an American Express card.
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