yee@osf.org (Michael K. Yee) (01/14/91)
In article <28000@cs.yale.edu> evans-ron@CS.YALE.EDU (Ronald Hale-Evans) writes: |> From: evans-ron@CS.YALE.EDU (Ronald Hale-Evans) |> I'm posting this for a friend who needs a reply within 24 hours (i.e. by |> tomorrow, 11 Jan). He has a limited amount of money to buy some Mac systems |> and is thinking about buying an LC. He has been talking to a salesperson |> who told him that there are problems with the original LCs shipped and that |> Apple is now shipping a reworked, debugged LC in four weeks. Is this true |> or is this just a sales pitch because the guy doesn't have any in stock? |> Any bad experiences with the LC? Bugs in the original LC??? I would like to know the real answer to this also. I've had a LC since Dec 21, and had a few strange problems with my LC (mostly bus error and no co-processor found errors). But, I attributed them to software (i.e. System 6.0.7 or bugs in the programs I am running). I would tend to think that this is just a "sales pitch", but I would like to know for sure. Inquiring minds want to know... =Mike -- = Michael K. Yee -- yee@osf.org or uunet!osf.org!yee -- = OSF/Motif Development = "I can't give you brains, but I can give you a diploma." -- The Wizard of OZ
STENGEL@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Robert F. Stengel) (01/14/91)
>|> Any bad experiences with the LC? > I picked up my LC a few days ago and have had a few problems of the sort mentio ned. While trying to use "Word Finder," I got a "bus error" that forced a rest art. The problem was repeatable. Using the "Word Finder" bundled with Word 4. 0, I did not have the problem. I surmise that the problem was with my earlier v ersion of WF (not limited to Word 4.0) and incompatibility with 6.0.6. I've als o noted that the spell checker in MacWrite Version 5 eats words rather than cor recting them! Otherwise, I've had no other problems. So far, the LC is a big improvement over my home-based SE, much like the Mac II in my office. It's qui ck but not blinding, and the display is crisp.