rout@tank.uchicago.edu (Mark Routbort) (05/31/90)
This is pulled from the June 1990 Issue of MacUser from a MacWarehouse full-
page advertisement for the Marathon 03 processor card:
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Turn your Mac into a System 7 POWERHOUSE for only $449!
In a matter of weeks, Apple will release SYSTEM 7 and make it available to all
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existing Mac users! And there's a large pool of SYSTEM 7 software ready to run
RIGHT NOW! Soon, the multi-tasking capabilities of SYSTEM 7 will allow your
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Mac to run new and much more powerful applications.
[Some legitimate if inflated copy deleted]
You'll be amazed at the increase in speed of your present applications with the
Marathon 030 Upgrade. You'll race through graphics and database processing at
speeds equivalent to computers costing thousands more.
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So, I hope everyone is getting ready for the drastically moved-up release of
System 7. Finally, multi-tasking capability for the Macintosh! I certainly
hope it's 'real.' And it will be nice to finally be able to use all that
System 7 software I have hanging about uselesslly. As well as the massive
speedup despite using the same width bus and clock rate.
Seriously, I find this to be almost criminally misleading. A good deal of
people are not in a position to know any better. I am rather upset at a
company that would publish garbage like this. This is based on what I have
heard about the Marathon and System 7 - I mean, SYSTEM 7!
--
Mark Routbort Due to circumstances beyond my control,
rout@tank.uchicago.edu There will be no big parade this Sunday.
-- Colonel Scheisskopf in Catch-22