ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg) (10/11/90)
In <ianh.655587033@morgana> ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au (Ian Hoyle) writes: >hofbauer@csri.toronto.edu (John Hofbauer) writes: >> Mac IIsi: 68030 What's the speed?
ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au (Ian Hoyle) (10/11/90)
hofbauer@csri.toronto.edu (John Hofbauer) writes: >Just picked up the Oct. 15 issue of BusinessWeek magazine which has >a cover story on Apple Computer. They say the following about the >new Macs: > Mac Classic: 68000 > 1 meg., 1 floppy $999 > 2 meg., floppy > and hard disk $1499 available October 15 > Mac LC: 68020 > 2 meg., floppy, > hard disk + color monitor $3098 available Oct. 15 > Mac IIsi: 68030 > 2 meg., floppy, > 80 meg. hard disk $3769 available January 1991 As of about 2 hours ago I just had a chance to see all of the above machines and they certainly do fill out the bottom end of Apple's range just nicely :-) The pick of the bunch as far as I can see is the LC. At long last an affordable colour machine at a really good entry price (yes, even for Aussie dollars !!) in a stylish (sexy ??) new box. ian -- Ian Hoyle /\/\ Image Processing & Data Analysis Group / / /\ BHP Melbourne Research Laboratories / / / \ 245 Wellington Rd, Mulgrave, 3170 / / / /\ \ AUSTRALIA \ \/ / / / \ / / / Phone : +61-3-560-7066 \/\/\/ FAX : +61-3-561-6709 E-mail : ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au
cummings@milton.u.washington.edu (Michael Cummings) (10/11/90)
In article <1990Oct10.172241.20286@sics.se> ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg) writes: >>> Mac IIsi: 68030 > >What's the speed? I read in a local magazine that the IIsi will run at 20MHz.
ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au (Ian Hoyle) (10/12/90)
ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg) writes: >In <ianh.655587033@morgana> ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au (Ian Hoyle) writes: >>hofbauer@csri.toronto.edu (John Hofbauer) writes: >>> Mac IIsi: 68030 >What's the speed? 20Mhz but with some of the things that have to be done to accomodate the on-board video it runs at about the speed of a IIcx. ian BTW the electret microphone input is real cute ..... I saw an alert sound being created very easily with good fidelity compared to the original spoken input. within seconds - -- Ian Hoyle /\/\ Image Processing & Data Analysis Group / / /\ BHP Melbourne Research Laboratories / / / \ 245 Wellington Rd, Mulgrave, 3170 / / / /\ \ AUSTRALIA \ \/ / / / \ / / / Phone : +61-3-560-7066 \/\/\/ FAX : +61-3-561-6709 E-mail : ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au
bayes@hpislx.HP.COM (Scott Bayes) (10/19/90)
> ian > > BTW the electret microphone input is real cute ..... I saw an alert sound > being created very easily with good fidelity compared to the original spoken > input. > within seconds - > -- > Ian Hoyle > /\/\ Image Processing & Data Analysis Group > / / /\ BHP Melbourne Research Laboratories > / / / \ 245 Wellington Rd, Mulgrave, 3170 > / / / /\ \ AUSTRALIA > \ \/ / / / > \ / / / Phone : +61-3-560-7066 > \/\/\/ FAX : +61-3-561-6709 > E-mail : ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au Yeah. I gave the sales people a demo :-) Guy says "I saw the other sales guy do it this morning". 10 minutes of fiddling, loading Hypercard, accidental reboot, (me saying in the background "Excuse me, why don't you try the Control Panel"), more messing, (me saying "Under the Apple menu" "How do you spell Apple?"). Thank God he finally went away. 30 seconds later I was getting excellent quality sound playback from the Sound CDEV. Sounded like CD quality. Up to 10 seconds recording on the si I used. Is this a memory-size based or a hard limit?? I showed the guy how to demo it. Scott Bayes
bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) (10/22/90)
From article <13740002@hpislx.HP.COM>, by bayes@hpislx.HP.COM (Scott Bayes): > Yeah. I gave the sales people a demo :-) Guy says "I saw the other > sales guy do it this morning". 10 minutes of fiddling, loading > Hypercard, accidental reboot, (me saying in the background "Excuse me, > why don't you try the Control Panel"), more messing, (me saying "Under > the Apple menu" "How do you spell Apple?")... The staff at the micro information center here made the alert sound say "you should have bought an IBM." Smart alecks. But it was fun watching unsuspecting people come in and try the machine out. :-) -- Paul DuBois dubois@primate.wisc.edu "Was all of this because I wore a big man's hat?"