maymudes@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (David M. Maymudes) (04/15/89)
When Apple releases the four or five new computers we expect to see this year,
what do you think it will name them? I'm beginning to be afraid that they
will all be formed by lowercase letters added to the names of current
products: If Apple releases 25 MHz versions of the IIx, IIcx, and the SE/30,
will they call them the IIxx, IIcxx, and SE/30x? (Or the SEx/30, or the
SE/30/25?) And what about the laptop? Macintosh SEl, probably. I recall
reading in the rumor columns about a IIex...
(Not only was the old Apple /// never a very good seller for Apple, it has
also permanently crippled the Macintosh line: Apple won't release a Mac III
for fear of reminding people of the Apple ///, so we'll be stuck with trains
of lowercase x's for the foreseeable future. :-)
Perhaps Apple will tackle the problem head on, and just release a Mac IV.
--David Maymudes
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davidm@harvarda.BITNETjnh@ece-csc.UUCP (Joseph Nathan Hall) (04/15/89)
In article <1630@husc6.harvard.edu> maymudes@husc4.UUCP (David M. Maymudes) writes: > >Perhaps Apple will tackle the problem head on, and just release a Mac IV. Maybe they'll emulate DEC and release the "Macintosh 2000." -- v v sssss|| joseph hall || 201-1D Hampton Lee Court v v s s || jnh@ece-csc.ncsu.edu (Internet) || Cary, NC 27511 v sss || joseph@ece007.ncsu.edu (Try this one first) -----------|| Standard disclaimers and all that . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
capslock@cup.portal.com (Allen M Crider) (04/16/89)
Since the Mac laptop is so heavy, I bet Apple will call it The Macintosh Portable (TM). Those words look real good when they're in that squeeeezed typeface Apple always uses.
mha@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder) (04/16/89)
In article <4020@ece-csc.UUCP> jnh@ece-csc.UUCP (Joseph Nathan Hall) writes: >In article <1630@husc6.harvard.edu> maymudes@husc4.UUCP (David M. Maymudes) writes: >> >>Perhaps Apple will tackle the problem head on, and just release a Mac IV. > >Maybe they'll emulate DEC and release the "Macintosh 2000." Don't laugh just yet. Have you seen Apple's "Project 2000" video, in which they "display" the Knowledge Navigator? This is the computer of the future you may have seen photographs of. It's the size of a notebook, and folds up just like one, but opens to reveal a flat display, speaker, microphone, and video pickup. No keyboard. The user interface consists of a window on the screen containing an animated picture of a guy in a bow tie (I'd hire a cartoon character wearing a three-piece suit to inhabit my computer, personally). He talks to you. You talk to him. He understands you and follows your directions. The video pickup is also designed to work as part of a picturephone. If someone calls you, a window opens on the desktop containing their picture, and they get a window with your picture. In the video tape, Apple used slick special effects to simulate their ideas of the computer of the future. But I'd be surprised if they weren't working towards many of these concepts today, in preparation for the future. I don't know how much of this is feasible, but at least we know a portable Apple isn't too far away! Foldable, notebook sized, maybe not. I'll see you here on comp.sys.mac after the Super Bowl of the year 2000, and we can talk about the $7,500,000,000 10-second commercial Apple had during the game for their new product. -- Mark H. Anbinder ** MHA@TCGould.tn.cornell.edu NG33 MVR Hall, Media Services Dept. ** THCY@CRNLVAX5.BITNET Cornell University H: (607) 257-7587 ******** Ithaca, NY 14853 W: (607) 255-1566 ******* Ego ipse custodies custudio
bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG) (04/17/89)
In article <4020@ece-csc.UUCP> jnh@ece-csc.UUCP (Joseph Nathan Hall) writes: > >Maybe they'll emulate DEC and release the "Macintosh 2000." > Or MicroPro!! John Heckendorn /\ BMUG ARPA: bmug@garnet.berkeley.EDU A__A 1442A Walnut St., #62 BITNET: bmug@ucbgarnet |()| Berkeley, CA 94709 | | (415) 549-2684 | |
folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) (04/19/89)
As I remember the video, one scene stands out: the professor, working with another professor, runs two simulations in parallel: Amazon Basin deforestation and Sahara Desert advance. Based on the pictures, which showed them advancing at a comparable time/rate, he deduces that there is a cause-effect relationship. Without other evidence, it seems to me that he made an (I forget the Latin) "it happened before, therefore it caused" error in reasoning. Whether there really is such an effect, I do not know, but I think the video might illustrate how more sophisticated does not make more correct. Wayne Folta (folta@tove.umd.edu 128.8.128.42)