Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!bsu-cs!mithomas From: mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Price Lists, Rumors Message-ID: <6879@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> Date: 21 Apr 89 06:12:20 GMT References: <6842@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <23349@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, IN, USA Lines: 55 > System 6.0.4, my rumor source says, is for the upcoming 25 MHz Macs that > will be announced at the Fall MacWorld. The feature that Michael > mentions is probably the new QuickDraw outline font capability... This week's MacWEEK talks about the outline font feature, but does not say what version of the system software this would be released with. It is possible that it could be postponed... > The new price list is here already at Berkeley, and the price for a > Mac Plus is $917 plus tax. Cheapest ever. Rumor is that Apple is > trying to clear its stockpiles of Mac Plusses, and they'll drop the > consumer list price of it Real Soon Now. ComputerWorld holds this same view for both the Mac Plus and the Mac II. They believe that on one will buy a Plus because it is not expandable/ upgradable. They believe that no one will buy an 020 machine with the risk of Apple standardizing on the 030. > I wish Berkeley's Apple Student Rep was as "on the ball" as you... :-) "On the Ball" -- Would you be suprised if I told you that this was the name of our clothing annex to our university bookstore? They sell large quantities of "Ball U" clothing... > --- Alex Some other interesting information from this week's MacWEEK: June 7 is slated as a "networking/connectivity" day for announcements. Those products scheduled to be introduced are: AppleTalk 2.0, a Token Ring card, and Apple's internet router for AppleTalk networks. AppleTalk 2.0 is supposed to support up to 65,034 (or some strange number like that) nodes by the use of logical zones. Apple's Token Ring card will be playing "catch-up" to IBM's new, faster TR offering. Apple is seriously considering building the Ethernet ciruitry into the motherboard of upcoming machines. Security at one of Apple's development centers has recently been increased. The rumors say that the theft of one of Apple's prototypes for an upcoming model of the Macintosh is the cause. MacWEEK also claimed that work on the new 25MHz and 33Mhz versions of the Mac IIx has progressed faster than expected, with working prototypes already in existence. [Disclaimer: none of this information is received from Apple. Most is from MacWEEK except where noted (or obvious).] -Michael -- Michael Niehaus UUCP: !{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!mithomas Apple Student Rep ARPA: mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu Ball State University AppleLink: ST0374 (from UUCP: st0374@applelink.apple.com)