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From: rfellman@ucsd.edu (Ronald D. Fellman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: MacPluses and system 7.0
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Date: 31 Dec 89 18:31:02 GMT
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I am in charge of setting up a computer engineering lab and am thinking
of getting about 20 MacPluses.  However, I am a bit concerned that they
may not be able to run System 7.0. The MacPluses will not have a local
hard drive but will use the file system on an SE30 running appleshare.
If I went with SEs rather than Pluses, I could only set up 12 stations
instead of 20.  Will I be sacrificing important networking capability
that may be available with system 7 by buying Pluses?
(Or, can I even run system 7 on a MacPlus?)

(Apple has informed me that they "ran out of donation money" and cannot
supplement my institutional grant.  Since we need at least 20 stations
to support the large number of students for the courses that this lab
will support, I'm afraid that we may be forced into buying nearly
obsolete equipment. Tell me this isn't so, and that the MacPlus will be
upgradeable! :-( )

Thanks,
-ron fellman (rfellman@ucsd.edu)