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From: philip@Kermit.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: need advice on purchase of 512 mac system
Keywords: 512 mac purchase questions
Message-ID: <1990Feb23.222032.15344@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 23 Feb 90 22:20:32 GMT
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In article <25E57F67.10881@paris.ics.uci.edu>, ajauch@ics.uci.edu
(Alexander Edwin Jauch) writes:
> In article <9783@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
lynch@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Tim Lynch) writes:
[stuff deleted]
> >1.  What's lacking in the 512 ROM's?
> 
> The most annoying thing missing on my 512E is appletalk.  The  512K has some
                                                ?^^^^^^^?
> other differences, the main one being 400K drives.
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Eh? When the LaserWriter was introduced, the 512 was the "top" model.
Maybe a 512E can't run LaserWriter drivers with some of the later system
software, but it definitely can run AppleTalk. Bottom line: if you don't
upgrade to 1M, you may have to stick with early versions of
applications/system software, but a lot of stuff WAS available for 512K
Macs (consider also the fact that you could run more than 1 app under
MultiFinder and Switcher when 1M was the defacto maximum).

Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu