herb@katana.sybase.com (Herb Lison) (10/26/90)
Businessland is offering company employees here a corporate discount on the new Mac products. They are quoting a price of $850 for the Mac Classic, with 1Mb Ram and and a single floppy. Does this seem like a reasonable price? Also, is this configuration sufficient to run the various games and educational software packages out there for the Mac? I'm thinking of getting a low end machine for a Christmas present for my kids. Thanks in advance, Herb Lison
mute@wpi.WPI.EDU (Joshua Thompson Brandt) (10/26/90)
In article <11485@sybase.sybase.com> herb@katana.sybase.com (Herb Lison) writes: >Businessland is offering company employees here a corporate discount >on the new Mac products. They are quoting a price of $850 for the >Mac Classic, with 1Mb Ram and and a single floppy. Does this seem >like a reasonable price? Also, is this configuration sufficient to >run the various games and educational software packages out there >for the Mac? I'm thinking of getting a low end machine for a Christmas >present for my kids. I am a student, and therefore don't have much money. I'm not sure about the statistics on a Mac Classic, but I run a Macintosh Plus with an enternal floppy, and have no problem playing games, writing occasional papers, and running small Hypercard stacks. I have several system disks, one with a tiny system, almost completely deviod of DAs and such, and with only virus protection INITs and a few other utilities. I use this one for games and playing sounds, using Mac CD from the system disk. I have a second system disk, with a few of my favorite fonts installed, and some handy DA's and a few more INITs than the other disk. I use this one for Hypercard and word processing. I haven't really had any problems with this. I have a Fuji external floppy, which I also haven't had any problems with. I do have loads of floppys lying around on my desk, but that's pretty normal. However, I really wouldn't like to be running it WITHOUT an external floppy.... ========================================`\ Joshua Brandt That is not dead which can eternal lie \\ mute@wpi.WPI.EDU But with strange eons, | ================================= Even death may die... (hpl) // Ia, Ia, Cthulhu! ========================================'/ Ia, Ia, Shub-Niggurath
carsup@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Fisher Library support) (10/28/90)
In article <1990Oct26.145334.29139@wpi.WPI.EDU> mute@wpi.WPI.EDU (Joshua Thompson Brandt) writes: > >I am a student, and therefore don't have much money. I'm not sure about >the statistics on a Mac Classic, but I run a Macintosh Plus with an >enternal floppy, and have no problem playing games, writing occasional >papers, and running small Hypercard stacks. I have several system disks, >one with a tiny system, almost completely deviod of DAs and such, and with >only virus protection INITs and a few other utilities. I use this one >for games and playing sounds, using Mac CD from the system disk. >I have a second system disk, with a few of my favorite fonts installed, and >some handy DA's and a few more INITs than the other disk. I use >this one for Hypercard and word processing. >I haven't really had any problems with this. I have a Fuji external floppy, >which I also haven't had any problems with. I do have loads of floppys >lying around on my desk, but that's pretty normal. >However, I really wouldn't like to be running it WITHOUT an external >floppy.... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Just a thought: in theory, you *CAN* run Word on a *single* floppy on the Classic. The reason why Josh couldn't is because he only has 779K on his floppy whereas the Classic owner could have 1404K on his/her floppy. Then again, maybe Josh just doesn't like Microsoft and does one better in using WriteNow instead! Anyway, WriteNow is *THE* choice for floppy based systems, IMHO of course. :) **** My employers ignore me, I'm on my own when I speak out in public **** Norton Chia | My address is carsup@extro.ucc.su.oz.au Micro Support | "I wonder if they'll have built-in spell chequers soon?" *******************************************************************************