jhs@ccieng5.UUCP (John Sentiff) (01/17/84)
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A friend of mine has just finished a product familiarization
course for a local computer store that carries APPLE computers (He is
a salesman there). He has told me that APPLE will announce the MacIntosh
computer on Tuesday, January 24, 1984. He has already placed an order
for himself but he would not reveal much about the MAC (Big Brother IS
watching, you know :-)).
He did say it was a portable, 68000-based system with 128K of
memory. It is set up to accomodate 256K DRAMs when they become available
and should cost about $3K when configured with a printer and interface.
He then told me that I probably would NOT want one because of another
announcement due out around the same time. I had told him earlier that
I thought a $7,000 LISA was priced about twice what it was worth. His
parting words to me were that after the new announcement I would be
priced about what I thought it was worth.
Dare we believe ... a $3500 LISA.
Has anyone heard anything concerning either of these?
John Sentiff
{seismo!rochester!ritcv!ccieng5!jhs}tbm@hocda.UUCP (01/20/84)
The EE TIMES has a fairly descriptive article on the Macintosh in the 1/16 issue. Also the WSJ for 1/19 has an add by Apple saying it is coming. Tom Merrick AT&T Bell Laboratorie,.
kds@intelca.UUCP (01/25/84)
there was a front page article in last Sunday's San Jose Mecury News
describing what they thought the MacIntosh was...in a nutshell, a 68K
with 128K memory, one integrated disk drive (additional drives must
be external) for $2500, add two software packages and a printer to
get to $3000. Apparently, the Lisa people have had to modify their
systems to run Mac software, but the result is the software that
runs on a Mac will run on a Lisa, but not vice versa (I hope I got
the direction right...). I think the disk for the beastie is a
3 1/2" Teac (if my memory serves me right). For more info, you might
try to dig up a copy of the article (well, ok, the Mercury is not
one of your major national newspapers, but I am too lazy to and most
would not appreciate my entering the text of the article).
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Ken Shoemaker, Intel, Santa Clara, Ca.
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