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	The magic sac is interesting... HOWEVER! Anybody seriously thinking
of using it, MUST! have a harddisk. Even w/ 2 DS floppy's The disk swaps
will drive ya nuts! This is no fault of the magic sac... Just the way
they grew the apple. I went through CONTORTIONS! getting the system 3.2/
FINDER 5.4 and Harddisk20 (the Hard disk driver for 64k mac roms (you know
the ones w/ the little gray hairs on em')) I thought great here we go!
My hard disk is STILL not working w/ it just blows up every time I tell
it there's a hard disk there!). Why? Got me? Anyone out there?
I've tried every combo I can think of, it just gets an illegal instruction
trap EVERYTIME! (too much gravity from the moon maybe? (hmmm...)).
The Mac IS NOT a "speedy" machine, Cutsie! yeah... I heard pagemaker 4.0
STILL has bugs in it (through I dunno how many revision's (certainly at least
4!) and still has bugs? (Fruit attracts bugs!)). In answer to your question
however... There are some fine programs that run w/ the SAC.. And, a good deal
of semi-respectable PD software available (NOTHING! like the PD on the IBM PC
however (tons of excellant stuff)... But, who wants good usable software at
a decent price!). As I understand it, even w/ the Magic translator (allowing
your ST to read write McFormated McDisks) copy protected Mac software does'nt
run. (bummer, as much of the real nice McStuff is protected). The translator
I'm told is VERY slow.. (Not that any Mac is gonna do 0-60 mph in 8 seconds).
In other words, it's meant to allow an individual to take McWork McHome &
back to work where the REAL mac is. Still.... some excellant programs
are available (Items like Ready Set Go which is lightyears ahead of
ST publishing stuff I've encountered).
Conclusions? Errr... W/ a WORKING harddisk, the $99 magic Sac is a fine buy.
And actually an incredable feat for Dave Small. There's just nothing like
seeing that little McFace staring at ya!. My compliments to Dave.
I digress...
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My comments are my own... Yeah... dat's it... own...

RG!
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Jeff Gortatowsky        .....allegra!rochester!kodak!elmgate!jdg
Eastman Kodak Company  
These comments are mine alone and not Eastman Kodak's. How's that for a
simple and complete disclaimer?