drew@anucsd.oz (Drew Corrigan) (03/17/89)
in article <851@tasis.utas.oz>, ben@tasis.utas.oz (Ben Lian) says: > Xref: anucsd comp.sys.mac:23311 aus.mac:814 > > Could someone please give a rundown on the technical specs for the IIcx? > Information is pretty scarce here in Australia at the moment. Disregarding This past Wednesday and Thursday I had the opportunity to visit the 1989 Apple Forums held at the Canberra Hyatt, Tuesday to Thursday. Most impressive! (At least to someone who has never managed to get to a MacWorld Expo, sigh.) The forums were a series of 1-hour seminars running from 9 to 5 in three rooms. The seminars covered a wide range of areas, including Macs in a mixed environment, Oracle on the Mac, Courseware, A/UX, music (and of course much more). Concurrent with the seminars were two or three "hands on" rooms with space enough for perhaps 10-15 people. Each participant had a Mac IIcx with colour monitor to follow through what the demonstrator was explaining. Also concurrent with the seminars was a Product Expo with all the big names in Mac software (Claris, Aldus, Acius, Microsoft, Oracle, etc.) showing their latest and greatest. I think I saw about one or two regular SE's and maybe a MacPlus. Nearly all the vendors were running SE/30's, IIx's or IIcx's. And most were using big screen displays. Apple's new displays were on show too. The professionalism of the entire thing was very high. The seminars (that I attended) were generally of an excellent standard, with live demonstrations. I hope this roadshow (its going to most capital cities - don't know about Hobart - haven't got my pamphlet here at the moment) proves to be very good for Apple sales over the coming year. (I say this as a Mac enthusiast of course!) So far as the Mac IIcx goes, it is a cut down version of the IIx, in that its got 3-NuBus slots instead of 6. It has the same 68030/68882 chip set as the IIx, 8 memory simm sockets, a ROM simm socket, and the standard IIx ports. It has one superdrive and is available with either a 40 or 80 Mb internal 3 1/2 inch hard disk. At the A/UX seminar it was said that Apple will be supporting A/UX on the IIcx (I don't know when though). Overall, the IIcx is a compact, stylish and powerful Macintosh. I don't have the full spec sheets or price list on me at the moment - but since Apple already has the machine here today I would think that any dealer ought to be able furnish you with the details. > the 'totability' of the SE/30, it seems to me that the IIcx is somewhat > better value for money. Or is it? I haven't done a close price/features comparison myself. I might look into it and summarise. Drew Corrigan. -- Drew Corrigan Department of Computer Science, Australian National University.
ksand@appleoz.oz.au ( A/UX Support) (03/19/89)
In article <951@anucsd.oz> drew@anucsd.oz (Drew Corrigan) writes: >in article <851@tasis.utas.oz>, ben@tasis.utas.oz (Ben Lian) says: >This past Wednesday and Thursday I had the opportunity to visit the 1989 >Apple Forums held at the Canberra Hyatt, Tuesday to Thursday. Most impressive! >(At least to someone who has never managed to get to a MacWorld Expo, sigh.) > >The professionalism of the entire thing was very high. The seminars (that I >attended) were generally of an excellent standard, with live demonstrations. Thx, the guys here at the office will love this (they worked quite hard for the show...). >I hope this roadshow (its going to most capital cities - don't know about >Hobart - haven't got my pamphlet here at the moment) proves to be very good >for Apple sales over the coming year. (I say this as a Mac enthusiast of >course!) It's in Sydney next week, 20-23 March. Other cities that the roadshow will visit are Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. Sorry, not Hobart this time. >> the 'totability' of the SE/30, it seems to me that the IIcx is somewhat >> better value for money. Or is it? SE/30 and IIcx are two different concepts, SE/30 is a compact model, whereas IIcx is a modular unit. Both are needed out on the market place. If I would decide upon any of these, I would look at what are my requirements, modular upgrade facilities, or a moveable unit. Reg, Kent PS: I would take a IIcx, because then I could later buy a MIDI synth DSP card. -- Kent Sandvik - Apple Australia *NET: ksand@appleoz.oz.AU APPLELINK: AUSTAUX "UNIX is dead - OS/2 will take over the _multiuser_ market" -said by Phil Dorn on a UNIX conference 1987
grae@murdu.oz (Graeme Gerrard) (03/20/89)
In article <510@appleoz.oz.au> ksand@appleoz.oz.AU (Kent Sandvik - A/UX Support) writes: >Reg, >Kent >PS: I would take a IIcx, because then I could later buy a MIDI synth DSP card. Peter Gotcher (Pres. of Digidesign) tells me that his company already has Sound Accelerator boards for the SE/30. (Also SE, II, IIx). I have one in my MAC II here at the Faculty. They have a M56001 DSP chip on board and can do stereo, 16bit, 44.1Khz sample conversion. Sounds great. List price, I believe, is $US995. Just for clarification. Graeme Gerrard Faculty of Music Uni. of Melbourne grae@murdu ph. (03) 344 7457