kevin@lasspvax.UUCP (Kevin Saunders) (09/20/85)
>-- the Hard Disk 20, a 20-megabyte hard disk for Macintosh > 512K users; Bend over for your Official 512K upgrade, Please! If this announcement had been accompanied by a new price on the upgrade, or an official proclamation of tolerance for upgrades, it wouldn't be quite so bad. ("Hot off the press: Steve Jobs organizes relief concert for 128K Macs! 'I feel so sorry for the little suckers...'") >The disk comes with a hierarchical filing system that manages >thousands of files without complex partitioning schemes. Instead, >the software uses the Macintosh computer's familiar file folder >icons for grouping together related files. Yuch, more "visual" crud. Give me regular expressions working on text, or give me, ahh, a lobotomy. (Do they provide "find"? Maybe it matches the little icons!!!!!!!) (Who is responsible for these "complex partitioning schemes," anyway? It's so nice to blame disk subsystem vendors for trying to make the machine work with the "absolutely amazing" system software provided with the Mac....) >quantity shipments expected in early 1986. >The U.S. suggested retail price of $1,499 . . . will be, by that time, pretty steep for a drive that is merely "twice as fast" as the lamentably slow (access time, that is) microfloppies. Pardon, coming off a bad day w/Aztec C *and* SUMACC. Kevin Eric Saunders lasspvax.kevin@cu.arpa "and then my phone line developed noise--God, I've completely lost faith!" Job II