jww@sdcsvax.UUCP (Joel West) (01/18/86)
They had handouts at the Apple booth at the MacWorld Expo, so here's additional info In article <8393@amdcad.UUCP>, jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) writes: >1. ROM + 800K drive $299 > >2. 512K to Mac+ $599 > >3. 128K to Mac+ $799 Or "third-party modified boards" #2 or #3 require #1, but the Apperson said there's no reason to do it all at once, rather than in stages. Both #2 and #3 include adapter cables for DB-9 to the funky 8-pins. I tried the whole show to find a source (of 8-pins) and couldn't, although the Apple booth used some really nice 9-to-8 molded connectors, which are obviously the > -- Macintosh Plus Peripheral Adapter Cable. mentioned in Jim's message. > >4. Keyboard $129 keep the old one I'm not sure I agree (see below) > These were all listed as "available -- March 1", although the Apperson said that was just being pessimistic, probably some time in February. > -- A Fast, Efficient Operating System. Copybits and related operations (e.g., moving a bitmap in MacPaint) were noticeably faster. Also, boots from the 800kb floppy. > -- Cursor Keys and a Numeric Keypad. The new HFS {Get,Put}File dialog box defines meanings for the cursor keys so that your fingers never need to leave the keyboard. This is very important to me, as I always try to answer SFGetFiles by typing and hitting "Return". ************FLAME ON****************** The new keypad looks like this: CLEAR = / * 7 8 9 - 4 5 6 + 1 2 3 EN- --- 0 --- . TER While the right-hand side of the keyboard is [ ] RE- (J-shaped like IBM Selectric) " TURN...... / Shift Up \ Left Right Down (on the left side, option and command are widened out to even with shift.) There are two glaring problems for old-Mac users with the Mac Plus keyboard: * The right shift is now about the size of the (old) Enter key--users tell me they hit Up instead of Shift a lot * The enter is gone! (it's now hidden in the keypad). The missing right-option key is less serious, to me. Still, I probably will buy the new keyboard for better terminal emulation. *****FLAME OFF******* > Available in February, the LaserWriter Plus has all the features and power of > the LaserWriter, in addition to seven new typefaces including ITC Avant > Garde(TM), ITC Bookman(TM), Helvetica Narrow, New Century Schoolbook, Palatino, > ITC Zapf Dingbats(TM) and ITC Zapf Chancery(TM). Just a brief reaction from the samples: Avant, H. Narrow : san serif Bookman, Palatino, Schoolbook: Serif Chancery: Italic (quasi-Venice) Dingbats: pictographic Joel West CACI, Inc. - Federal (c/o UC San Diego) {ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sdcsvax!jww jww@SDCSVAX.ARPA