bhyde@inmet.UUCP (03/31/84)
#N:inmet:17900018:000:4133 inmet!bhyde Mar 29 09:48:00 1984 This is a review of the contents of INFO-MAC for the period from March 10th thru about half of March 15th. enjoy ben hyde Pricing: "Having just worked on a project to sell a uP data-logger we have found that a 3x mark-up will insure about a 20% profit after taxes." glenn at su-shasta Universitys: -"... 500-600 people ordered Macs ... at Mich..." Jerry Wallis (Wallis @ sumex) -"This is second hand and might not be accurate, but the word here at UT-Austin was that 2000 people snapped up tickets to buy Macs and/or Lisas on the first day. My ticket was numbered 1536 but I don't know where the numbering started. The scheme here is to stand in line to get a ticket that allows you to return at a later date ( and at a specific time) to order a Mac. My date is March 23. You plunk down your 20% when you order and bring the rest when you pick up the machine. - "We have recieved 700+ orders for Macs, and delivered the first 100 or so. But the predicted delivery of 300 more in March and 100 a month thereafter should be understood as our quesses, and not as information based on any promises from Apple." William Sholar <SHOLAR@CMU-CS-C.ARPA> Other: - Christopher A Kent (cak@Purdue.ARPA) feels that at $1200 the mac is a pretty good terminal, "won't threaten anyone's mainframes, but it should be able to make using those mainframes a bit more friendly." - Much discussion about in different modens with Macterminal. Seems that Hayes compatable autodial modems should work fine. > "The Apple Modem is a repackaged USR Password. While Apple claims that they have made special modifications', I am reasonably certain that the instructions set remains essentially unchanged. This would mean that both Password and Hayes Smartmodem are OK." Michael Tchao <TCHAO@SU-SCORE.ARPA> - Rumor of an upgrade problem for an old Lisa upgrading to a Lisa 2/10, no problem with upgrade to a Lisa 2. "timing incompatiblities on the mother board... any one .. successfully to 2/10 ..?" John Shore <shore@NRL-CSS> - Talk of stacking add on boxes under the printer, over the monitor, worry about vibration, shipping box for add ons, standard peripheral footprint and roof... - "I really only want one peripheral: a wire going to my local net, providing modem, printer, large-scale storage, and communication." Matthew J Weinstein < matt@UCLA-LOCUS > - "...Big Blue released a 'portable' computer weighing 30 pounds whereas the 'non-portable' Mac weighs in around 20. ..." eugene miya <emiya@ames-vmsb> - "purchased an insurance policy .. regular ... agent ... Aetna ... $100/year for $7000 coverage ... in home or not ... had to make up list of purchase price or replacement value." Mike Ciaraldi <ciaraldi@Rochester.ARPA> - A report that a poor fellow discovers that his refrigerator makes the line voltage drop below 100 volts, his Mac was going haywire several times a day, disks lost, he now unplugs the fridge. Queries: Generate Music from basic? General Gimics: - shift-command-1 ejects disk... at all times ..." if the drive does not contain a disk, the eject mechanism is exercised. There doesn't seem to be any harmful side-effects, since a dialog box asking for the disk is displayed as soon as the disk is needed ... might help in situations involving a physically write locked disk." Mike Schuster <Mikes@cit-20.arpa> MacPaint Gimics: - On problem of pasting large images into MacWrite from MacPaint > you can do physical cut and paste latter, > you can insert whole pages in the final document > you can, but its hard, cut out vertical peices and line them up in MacWrite. This is hard since cut/paste isn't perfectly accurate about the boundaries. > You can shink, cut, paste, and expand, but this loses information in the shink step. Bugs: > ".. demonstration disks were broken ... power cycling ... to get out of boring demonstrations ... leads to unusable diskette." John Palevich palevich%atari.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa Jerry Pournelle