urban@spp2.UUCP (Mike Urban) (09/16/86)
Well, I have a few extra bucks to spend, and a lot of water has gone under the proverbial bridge since I bought my 512K mac a couple of years ago. There are two obvious paths to take at this point, but I don't think I want to spend the money doing both... 1) I can upgrade my Mac to a Mac+ (possible memory upgrade) 2) I can buy some variety of hard disk. I see the following points: (favoring upgrade) Increasing amount of software that wants to live with the new roms (Servant, for example, right?). Increased 800k disk drives. SCSI port to support a *later* hard disk addition (the best hard disks are SCSIfied nowadays). (favoring disk) A Mac+ isn't terribly interesting without a hard disk. Things like C compilers, public domain M2 compilers, TeX, and the like are very painful to use without plenty of disk space. I'm a lot more tired of swapping diskettes around than I am perturbed by the slow but sure demise of the vanilla 512K Mac. (other considerations) I should wait until after the usual price shakeup and product announcements that happen every January. ThunderScan won't work on a Mac+ because the printer port doesn't have a power pin any more (is this true?). My 400k external floppy gets trashed/sold either way, doesn't it? ================================================================ So...what do people think I oughta do, and why? IMPORTANT NOTE: send your reply to ME, not the whole net. I'll summarize responses if there are many. -- Mike Urban ...!trwrb!trwspp!spp2!urban "You're in a maze of twisty UUCP connections, all alike"
mac@esl.UUCP (Mike McNamara) (09/19/86)
In article <952@spp2.UUCP> urban@spp2.UUCP (Mike Urban) writes: > >ThunderScan won't work on a Mac+ because the printer port doesn't >have a power pin any more (is this true?). > Mike - I posted this, to clear up a Thunderscan misconception. Yes, Thunderscan will work on a Mac+; they give you a little box &transformer, plus some cables which make it all happen. If you already have Thunder scan, drop them a note; If you buy it, you can get it with or without the conversion stuff. -- ------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | Michael Mc Namara | MM MM MM OO SSS AAA II CCCC | | ESL Incorporated | M M M O O S A I C C | | ARPA: mac%esl.UUCP@ames.ARPA | M M M O O SSS AAAA I C | | mac%esl.UUCP@shasta.ARPA | M M M O O S A A I C C | | mac%esl.UUCP@lll-lcc.ARPA | MM M M OO SSS AAA A III CCCC | ------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | Note: esl used to be called tflop; the path mac%tflop will still work awhile| ------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+