henry@rochester.UUCP (Henry Kautz) (11/08/85)
So, the new "open" Mac will have a *SINGLE* expansion slot. Now, that's
rumor that I find very credible, unlike all this silliness about Apple
building a Unix machine. (Why on earth would Apple want to support
another non-business-mainstream
OS? Scully will have the Mac running DOS
long before Unix...) But the single slot mac makes sense:
1. It proves that even with Jobs gone, Apple can continue to bungle
the Mac. Consumers are reassured by consistency in a company.
2. Companies (including Apple) will make big $$$ on the boards for that
slot, because users will have to keep throwing out their old boards, and
buying more and more powerful and costly multi-function boards, whenever
they need a new hardware feature.
3. It will prevent any 3rd party from introducing a popular color
board for the Mac. Most upscale users will have that slot filled with
more memory or a tape-backup controller, and thus there will not be
a sufficient market for a color board. Apple, of course, wants
everyone to throw away their computers and
buy a new color mac when they are introduced in 1987.
---- Henry Kautz
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:phone: (716) 275-5766spector@acf4.UUCP (David HM Spector) (11/08/85)
Not that I believe all these dumb Dvorak rumours, but if Apple were to come out
with a 'one slot' Macintosh, it wouldn't be too bad; the very first product
to go into it would be a bus extender, and the second product for it would be
an expansion box......into which you could put all the scsi, color, and
other widget cards (even (*GACK!*) and IBM-PC clone-card) your heart could
desire. But then again, so much for Dvorak's rumors, I'll wait till the
superbowl to see what the commercial says.... :-) :-) :-)
( The only improvement I *!REALLY!* want to see from Apple in the coming
months is for them to actually ship a product ON TIME. {Lord, could I use
a HardDisk20! or the MDS512 developement system} Newer, Nifty-ier
Macintoshes would be neeto too, but only if you can get one :-)
David Spector
NYU/acf Systems Group
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