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From: tron@wpi.wpi.edu (Richard G Brewer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: A long deluded //c user.
Message-ID: <691@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Date: 8 Feb 89 17:10:01 GMT
References: <8902042332.aa05508@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: tron@wpi.wpi.edu (Richard G Brewer)
Organization: Worcester Polytechinc Institute, Worcester, MA. USA
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In article <8902042332.aa05508@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> CS656@OUACCVMB.BITNET writes:
>
>>The //c was another of Jobs' great ideas.  One of the things that
>>Woz did right with the Apple II was to make it expandable, not
>>replaceable.  The //c was apparently targeted at the sort of yoyos
>>for whom Apple user manuals are now written, who would only blow up
>>their computer if they could get the cover off.  If growth was a
>>factor you would have been better advised to have bought a //e.
>I wish you would have told me that sooner. I have a //c and since I
>didn't know that I couldn't take the cover off I've added an 800K drive
>a meg of memory, and a 5 mghz RocketChip. I suppose I could pitch it but
>then how would I get my homework done? I'm taking Advanced Cobol and UNIX/C
>this quarter, and after doing all my homework in UltraMacros enhanced
>Appleworks it's going to be hard to adjust to full time XEDIT and VI.
>Bob Church  CS656@OUACCVMB


YEAH! //C power!


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