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From: toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
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Subject: Re: //c+; was //gs screen resolutions...
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Date: 20 Feb 90 01:20:55 GMT
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bchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bob Church) writes:

>I would like to see Apple ship the //c+ with at least 256k of memory but
>other than that I have a hard time thinking of any way of improving on it.
>Even with 128k it's a great Appleworks machine due to the built in 800k 
>drive.

Well, if you have a lab of 30 of 'em, say, it'd be really nice if you could
boot them diskless from an AppleShare server and then run the eduware from
there as well, and the student's files could all stay on the server.

This eliminates a lot of floppy shuffling and would make an internal 3.5
pretty useless, though i'd leave the disk port in so that you can put an
Apple 3.5 on a few of the machines.

This would mean replacing the two ACIA's with an 8530, adding network
startup and print to the ROM, and leaving the internal drive out.

The machine would be even cheaper than it is now!

> Once people actually take a look at the machine they start
>to appreciate it. I think the systems biggest drawback is the lack of 
>"push" it gets from dealers, etc.

I agree. One place near me has theirs hooked to a monochrome monitor, and
all it runs is Apple's demo software, which can't even do clean animation
because the guy who wrote it never heard of page flipping.

The keyboard even feels ok! :)

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu