gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu (03/25/89)
I am a Mac II owner --
As someone who bought the Mac II because "A/UX was coming", I
DISCOURAGE you from betting on future OS's from Apple. After all, no
gambling system is intended to pay off a majority to the players.....
And look what great luck people have had "betting" on OS-2!!!!
I got my Mac II thinking I'd get A/UX when it was released.
Little did I know that initially, Apple would charge $3000 for a hard
disk "loaded with A/UX", and then lower the price to $800, sans
documentation, just for floppy disks. These prices are outrageous,
even by PC/386 UNIX standards.
Apple is rumbling about charging for future versions of the operating
system. Don't buy an 030 and get screwed by Apple like I did!!!!!!
Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801
ARPA: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu UUCP: {uunet,harvard}!uiucdcs!gilliesmoriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) (03/28/89)
If I were the SE owner in question, I think I'd hold out until Apple came
out with the OS that will be dependent on the '030. Yeah, I sold my Mac
Plus for an SE/30 now, but if I already had an SE instead of a Plus, I would
have waited.
PS Skip the SuperDrive upgrade, unless you need to do IBM floppy transfers.
Since all I ever use floppies for is transfering data between Macs,
it's next to useless -- 800K is what most people use (and will continue
to use, unless quad density disk prices come way down)
MONDO VIDEO with Prof. Fred Hopkins:
"PROMISED LAND (Vestron). Kiefer Sutherland,
Meg Ryan, and Tracy Pollan. And they all
look alike. And they're all made of
ticky-tacky."
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