bhyde@inmet.UUCP (02/17/84)
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inmet!bhyde Feb 15 09:52:00 1984
I have talked with a lot of friends at universities involved with the scam
that Apple is pushing, so I don't remember where these notes came from but:
Macintosh: 1055, usual price: 2499
Lisa 2: 2500
Lisa 2/5: 3200
Lisa 2/10: 3800
The hardware that Apple is oems, like the printer, is discounted less.
I am convinced this is the best thing since sliced bread, and I don't
want to discuss why it isn't with anybody so please don't send me a lot
of negative vibs. If you haven't seen this delightful thing yet, go do
it today, its going to make most of what you know obsolete.
I would like to hear from actual Macintosh owners. I have had one for
about a week now, I am content. I would like to trade and exchange
bits of experiance.
- Headers are best slide under the main window in MacWord.
- I like the way it will paste into a selection in MacPaint.
- Have you noticed that you don't seem to be able to select multiple
objects and print them all, an act that seems plausable via an analogy
with selection of multiple objects and requesting info.
- The system crashs if one empties the trash when it happens to contain
an object who's infomation window is open.
- Any ideas on how a large disk is going to fit into a system where all
object names on a disk are unique?
My favorite trick is to make bubbles.
- draw circle,
- spray on some shadow,
- fatbit on the edge, and take one bit out,
- lasso the bubble, the hole you make lets the lasso leak into the bubble,
- make copies, do scaleing, etc.
The cutting holes into things gimic to get transparent things is very
useful. One easy way to do it is to draw a line, using opion to get a
line in the present paint, with clear paint. This can be used to cut
holes in large patterned areas, which one can then pour paint into to
get patterned strips.
I would love to hear about some good tricks for working with large drawings.
Ben Hyde.