crum@utah-cs.UUCP (Gary L. Crum) (09/15/85)
The Salt Lake Tribune newspaper printed an article on the front page of its
15-Sep business section about Dayna Communications and its "MacCharlie".
For those that haven't heard, MacCharlie is an expansion box for Macintosh
that allows it to run IBM software. The ~$1800 system includes an 8088,
one 5.25" disk drive, and 256K RAM. The "plus" version has two drives and
a total of 640K RAM. The price of "MacCharlie plus" wasn't mentioned.
An interesting quote from Bill Sadleir, chairman of Dayna Communications,
revealed his marketing stradegy of initally high prices. Here's the quote:
"But we're confident that because of our inside relationship with
the people at Apple and the start we already have in this market,
we will always be able to price competitively," Mr. Sadleir said.
"Right now we are pricing our product in a monopolistic environment
because we are the only one. We will be able to handle the
competition when it comes."
Have any of you purchased a MacCharlie unit yet? I'm just curious about
how the unit utilizes the display monitor of the Macintosh. The article
touted "The line graphics are outstanding. Even the size of the Macintosh
screen does not detract too much from the crisp, 80-column text display."
I certainly wouldn't say that 80 monospaced characters across the 512 pixel
horizontal resolution of the Mac results in an aesthetically pleasing
text display.
Gary L. Crum crum@utah-cs.arpa
University of Utah {seismo,ihnp4,hplabs,decvax}!utah-cs!crumALAN@NCSUVM.BITNET (09/16/85)
Anybody that buys "MacCharlie" is SICK. Why did you get a Macintosh?
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