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Article #22654Modular Macs (was: Good old Darek)
From: John Hutchinson
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 23:35
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 23:35
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In article 22292@news2.cis.umn.edu, davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu () writes: > >The LC, LC II and IIsi are not exactly what I'd call 'modular'. Dave, 'modular' simply means that the cpu and monitor are separate pieces, as opposed to the all-in-one concept of the earlier Macs. >The LC/LC II/IIsi have one slot -- and it isn't even a NuBus slot! OK, and how many VME slots do you have on the previous MegaSTe and TT? One, right? And how many VME expansion slots are there on the Falcon 030? Zip. >(This is the voice of experience... Yeh, yeh... how about the voice of *reason* on the net for a change? >The lower end Macintosh machines are no more 'upgradable' than the Mega STe or >TT. Really? How long does it take you to reach the motherboard on a MegaSTe or TT? I still have nightmares of wrestling with the shielding on my MegaSTe. I find it much easier to push on two tabs to lift the hood of my IIci. Hey, I LIKE Atari computers! But I'll be switched if I'm going to set back in my easy chair and sing the praises of Atari and be blind to the advances that the "other guys" have made over the years while Atari stagnates. It's BECAUSE I like my Atari computers that I get so p.o.'d when I seen Atari HQ make such stupid decisions... like their CLOSED architecture! Howard said "you must be a moron if you think Macs are expandable." Well, you better go ahead and dust off my duncecap then fellas because I'd die a happy man if my Atari was as "non-expandable" as my Mac. --- ___________________________ John "HUTCH" Hutchinson _________________________ _________________ Fair Dinkum Technologies Member - IAAD _______________ ________________ "No worries, mate... it's from Fair Dinkum!" _______________ ____________ email: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov GEnie: FAIR-DINKUM _____________
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!hellgate.utah.edu!lanl!ilmen!hutch From: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson) Subject: Modular Macs (was: Good old Darek) Message-ID: <1993Jan6.233504.7732@newshost.lanl.gov> Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov Reply-To: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory References: <1993Jan6.181510.22292@news2.cis.umn.edu> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 23:35:04 GMT Lines: 41