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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: New Macs
Message-ID: <8400065@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 23 Jan 89 07:37:00 GMT
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Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies    Jan 23 01:37:00 1989


I think Apple has shot itself in the foot.

-- How much would *YOU* pay for an SE/030 upgrade and the 1.44Mb floppy
in your machine?

-- What if I said you *get* *to* THROW AWAY your MacSE expansion
card(s), *NOW* how much would you pay?

-- And if what I threw in a pair of ginsu knives?!?!?!?


I bet that Apple won't ever announce an SE/030 upgrade, or if they do,
then they won't sell many.  We know the MacII has Nubus, well the SE
has NoBus!  And now the SE/030 has NoBus2!  And NoBus != NoBus2!!!

Apple has made the same mistake as IBM!  And the blunder comes right
after they watched IBM falter!  People resist PS/2's & the
microchannel bus partly because they must throw away their AT/XT
cards.  Now people can resist the SE/030 for the same reason!

Really, I thought Apple would be smart enough to avoid getting into
this pickle.  Is this the end of upgrades for SE-class machines?