rsb5c@watt.acc.Virginia.EDU (Richard S. Bondi) (10/19/90)
A thread should be started on this subject. Here is my point: prices of used Pluses are going to plummet to well under $500 when the Classic costing $999.- retail, and God knows what on the street, comes out. 20MB hardrives external can be had for just over&under $300, and 20MB is just about all anyone who just needs a Plus or Classic, needs. In other words, with external floppy dirves costing $200 mail order, used Pluses will be priced to compete with Classic, and I can see no compelling reason to spend more money on a Classic instead. Can anyone give me any? In particular, instead of piling up scattered debating points on the net, can someone who KNOWS post a table with Plus specs vs. Classic specs in two columns, so that we all know what we are talking about? Thanks.
scott@scotty (Scott Howard) (10/19/90)
Mac Plus Mac Classic
Brain Dead SCSI port Normal SCSI port, much faster.
128 K ROMS 512 K ROMS
800K Floppy SWIM 1.4 Meg Floppy
Telephone Cable I/O ADB Connector
Connector.
Lots of Chips on VLSI integration ala SE leads to 25% speedup.
Motherboard.ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff) (10/20/90)
In article <1990Oct18.170523.10117@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> rsb5c@watt.acc.Virginia.EDU (Richard S. Bondi) writes: >A thread should be started on this subject. Good point, we've been discussing around the office recently.... >20MB hardrives external can be had for just over&under $300, and 20MB is just >about all anyone who just needs a Plus or Classic, needs. This is certainly debatable. A few years ago, maybe, but user expectations change with time. Anyway, one argument for the Classic is the fact that it takes an *internal* hard drive. For about $300 you can buy a FAST (12ms) 40MB Quantum ProDrive.... sure beats a 40ms $300 external 20MB drive! >with external floppy dirves costing $200 mail order Regardless of whether you have a Plus or Classic, I would spend the extra $100 and get some kind of external hard disk instead of the floppy. ||| Boyd Ostroff - Tech Director - Dept of Theatre - SUNY Oswego ||| Sys Admin - "The CallBoard" - (315) 947-6414 - 1200/2400 baud ||| ostroff@oswego.oswego.edu - cboard!ostroff@oswego.oswego.edu