neil@sdcsvax.UUCP (Neil Rhodes) (08/18/85)
I am very close to buying a mac, but I have a couple of questions:
I am planning to buy a 512K mac with an external drive and an ImageWriter.
1) Is the above the best configuration?
2) Is a price of $2500 good for that configuration or are there better
deals available (including Apple Consortium schools)?
3) What software is most useful? I plan on getting Smalltalk, MacWrite,
MacPascal, and some terminal emulation program.
4) How well does Smalltalk work with 512K and floppies? I have used
Smalltalk on a Sun-2 and found the speed barely tolerable.
5) Is Inside Mac (?) in the yellow-pages version worth getting.
(I understand software updates come with the non yellow-pages
version)
6) How much software is posted to Compuserve that is not posted to
Usenet? (Should I count on spending $10-$20 / month on compuserve
bills to keep up-to-date)
I would really appreciate any time you could spend answering these
questions for me.
Please reply by mail. If requested, I will post summaries to the net.
Neil Rhodes
ARPA: neil@ucsd
UUCP: {ucbvax,decvax,allegra}!sdcsvax!neil
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Neil Rhodes
UC San Diego
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(619)455-0159