vishniac@wanginst.UUCP (Ephraim Vishniac) (08/21/85)
An article in the Monday, August 19th, issue of the EE Times bears the headline "Apple Readies Hi-Res, Color Mac Successors." Datelined Boston (where the MacWorld Expo is in its first hours even as I type), the story goes on to describe the "Jonathan", the "Jason", and some miscellaneous Apple news. Here are the high points, so near as I can tell: Jonathan: 17-inch monitor (800x600 pixels), expansion slots, "business" keyboard with trackball, SCSI interface 20Mbyte, 3.5" winchester for existing Macs and Jonathan. The Jonathan version will fit inside the cabinet. 550Mbyte, 4.7" CD-ROM for both Macs and Apple ]['s. A faster, lower-cost laser writer. A faster, quieter, lower-cost ImageWriter. A 40Meg AppleTalk file server. Jason: a modular *color* Mac. Jonathan will probably be available much sooner than Jason, partly because of the difficulty of finding a suitable hi-res color CRT. Double-sided drives and the new ROM are supposedly ready to go, pending final decisions on upgrade policies. The new Macs *might* be 68020 based. Jonathan is supposed to support up to 16M ram. For more details, read the entire article or wait for digests from Expo attendees. -- Ephraim Vishniac [apollo, bbncca, cadmus, decvax, harvard, linus, masscomp]!wanginst!vishniac vishniac%Wang-Inst@Csnet-Relay
vishniac@wanginst.UUCP (Ephraim Vishniac) (08/21/85)
> An article in the Monday, August 19th, issue of the EE Times bears the > headline "Apple Readies Hi-Res, Color Mac Successors." Datelined Boston > (where the MacWorld Expo is in its first hours even as I type), the story > goes on to describe the "Jonathan", the "Jason", and some miscellaneous > Apple news. > Oh, I forgot some of the miscellaneous Apple news. Apple is suing a memory-upgrade company which was replacing Apple ROMs with slightly modified copies so that the system would recognize the full memory size at startup. Better stick to the companies that use external kluges to fool the ROMs. (In the Boston area, try MassTech Development Labs or New England Labs. MassTech is producing a "clip-on" memory upgrade so that your original board is unmodified. New England Labs is more conventional, might be slightly cheaper.) Also, there's a box titled "Steven Jobs To Second-Source Mac?" Rumor has it that Apple might license enough technology for former insiders Jobs and Mike Murray (former Mac Marketing manager) to produce their own Mac clones. Apparently the idea is to increase market acceptance by increasing the choice in Mac-compatible machines. -- Ephraim Vishniac [apollo, bbncca, cadmus, decvax, harvard, linus, masscomp]!wanginst!vishniac vishniac%Wang-Inst@Csnet-Relay