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From: twakeman@hpcea.CE.HP.COM (Teriann Wakeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Re: Summary: Request for future owner info (or Crazy to buy a Plus)
Message-ID: <430076@hpcea.CE.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Feb 89 23:12:29 GMT
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Organization: HP Corporate Engineering - Palo Alto, CA
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Gee, I think anyone who would spend the money for an SE at this time must
not be interested in bang for the $$.

I would recommend a used Mac+ with an additional purchase of 2megs RAM,
120 nano second or preferably faster. Clip one side of the 150 ohm
resister, & save the old SIMMS. This would be a minimum expenditure
buy-in that would give you essentually the performance of a 2.5 Meg SE
for a fraction of the price. Granted the SCSI interface is faster on an SE.

I would put the extra money in a savings account & add to it over time.
Then, whenever you have the money saved, assuming of course that you do
need something more powerful, buy the latest 030, 040, or RISC Mac.

You could then move your RAM to the new machine and sell your once again
1 MEG Mac+, for additional RAM or whatever.

I would NOT spend anymore then I had to to get into a 6800 machine &
I wouldn't at this time bother with a 68020 machine.

There are LOTS of Mac+'s & SE's out there & there will be lots of software
being developed of them in the future. A Plus will run anything a SE will.

Sorry, but I do not think a SE that runs 15% faster  is a better deal then 
a Plus which is ever so much cheaper. Esp. since Apple is so obviously
moving its line over to the 68030 & probably going to maintain the 6800
machines as entry level Macs.

TeriAnn {happy Plus owner}