[net.micro.apple] Just when you thought it was safe...

eve@ssc-bee.UUCP (Michael Eve) (10/22/84)

	Just when you may have thought it was safe to purchase a
	512k Mac and not have to worry about future upgrades comes
	this disturbing aside in the October Dtack Newsletter:

	"... the genuine Fat Mack, which was (and still is?)
	scheduled for production early in 1985 was to have had 
	a logic board redesign to quadruple the data rate of
	its serial port, for instance.  Introduction of the
	'Plump Mack' this early reeks of a desparation move to
	placate frustrated software designers.

	Incidentally, going from 128k to 512k is a 384k upgrade
	regardless of what prevaricators may say."

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	permission to reprint the above:

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	Mike Eve     Boeing Aerospace, Seattle
	...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!ssc-bee!eve