kraut@ut-emx.UUCP (kraut) (03/02/88)
the weekly half-hour PBS program covered Tax-programs this week, and MacInTac and some shareware HyperCard stacks were covered. If you are not videotaping this show yet, you might want to consider doing so. It is a real interesting source to get visual comparisons of similar software on different machines. Yes, coverage cannot be more than shallow in the minute or two often only allocated to a program. in the computer news section there was also an interesting comment on a (just announced?) Atari 68030 UNIX box bundled with a LaserWriter and some other stuff for under $5000 - can that be true? -- (prefered mailbox:) werner%rascal@sally.utexas.edu ....!ut-sally!rascal.ics.utexas.edu!werner (if rascal is unreachable:) werner@astro@sally.utexas.edu werner@utastro.uucp
ali@polya.STANFORD.EDU (Ali Ozer) (03/02/88)
In article <1049@ut-emx.UUCP> kraut@ut-emx.UUCP (kraut) writes: >(just announced?) Atari 68030 UNIX box bundled with a LaserWriter and some >other stuff for under $5000 - can that be true? Sounds like Atari --- you'll see the box out on the market in 18 months. By which time $5000 won't be so hot for a 68030 box and a laser printer. Look at what happened with their laser printer --- When they announced it, it was a great deal --- About $1500! Believe it or not, about a year and a half ago laser printers under $2000 were rare, and this sounded good. Well, in their own Atari fashion, they brought it out to the market somewhat too late and with enough corners cut off so that it's not exactly the deal it seemed to be --- Laser printer with no postscript and NO memory (you need to build your bitmaps in your computer) for just under $2000. You can get laser printers with memory for much under that these days! Same goes pretty much for their Mega ST (whose priced climbed steadily during the year between anouncement & shipment...). Ali Ozer, ali@polya.stanford.edu