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From: swerling@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ace Swerling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: IIcx intro (Mac II dead?)
Message-ID: <41ec87c1.129dc@blue.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 9 Mar 89 17:57:00 GMT
Reply-To: swerling@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ace Swerling)
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering
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In article <1269@wasatch.UUCP> t-jacobs@wasatch.utah.edu.UUCP (Tony Jacobs) writes:
>I believe that Apple will wait until the demand for the Mac II will die down,
>then quit making them, drop the price of the IIx down in the II's slot,
>introduce the "Tower" at some where close to where the IIx was.
>-- 
>Tony Jacobs * Center for Engineering Design * U of U * t-jacobs@ced.utah.edu

MacWeek has reported that the tower configuration is dead and has been buried.
The reason given for this is that there was some cable from the cover on the
case to the mother board.  When you opened the case, you were supposed to
disconnect the case.  The Apple people decided that it was too easy to forget
to disconnect the cable.  If you do that and open the cover too quickly, it was
really easy to rip components off the board.  This is obviously not acceptable
for a consumer product.  So, the plan is to put the tower mother board in a
desktop case.

-Ace

I only read this stuff in MacWeek.  Kill them if it's wrong.