Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!oliveb!felix!kehr From: kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: MAC SE w/68030??? Message-ID: <76650@felix.UUCP> Date: 30 Dec 88 15:26:46 GMT References: <6101@columbia.edu> <1443@cooper.cooper.EDU> <76252@felix.UUCP> <66458@ti-csl.CSNET> Sender: daemon@felix.UUCP Reply-To: kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) Organization: FileNet Corp., Costa Mesa, CA Lines: 55 In article <66458@ti-csl.CSNET> holland@m2.UUCP (Fred Hollander) writes: >In article <76252@felix.UUCP> kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) writes: <>The internal monitor is still monochrome, but surprisingly <>the new machine has the exact same ROMs as the IIx, which means they include <>the color Quick Draw routines. >Does it say anything about expansion cards for color monitors? I'd settle >for portable monochrome if I could plug in a color monitor. I'd especially >like to use the Apple Color monitor. Also, will it support the multiple- >monitor desktop as does the Mac II? The report doesn't say, but since you can plug a third party screen into an SE today, I would be very surprised if you could not (eventually) use an add-on color monitor. Actually, it's the people with the SE's that have two monitors here. One writer refused a Mac II because she wanted the extra half meg of memory and those two monitors. That's how I lucked into the Mac II as a new writer here. >By the way, what is this Mac II report? It's a rather plain chatty newsletter that sometimes assumes we are following these two writers (Thom Hogan and Michael Swaine). They write other books, documentation, columns in major magazines, and consequently have lots of excuses about why they didn't get the current issue out on time or why it's so short. Originally it was $48 per year (12 issues) and promised to write about Mac II specific issues. That was important at first, but now it seems to me that Mac II runs some things better than SE - specifically the system software. If you don't do color, I'm not sure there is really that much different about Mac II anymore. I would write and ask for a sample issue, and they'll probably send the largest issue they've written, which was the December issue (28 pgs). They want $60 per year now, unless you're an original subscriber to whom they promised a continuing subscription at $48. I'm not sure I'll continue even at that "reduced rate." Macreations 329 Horizon Way Pacifica, CA 94044 Shirley Kehr >>Shirley Kehr > >Fred Hollander >Computer Science Center >Texas Instruments, Inc. >holland%ti-csl@csnet-rela > >The above statements are my own and not representative of Texas Instruments.