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In article <66458@ti-csl.CSNET> holland@m2.UUCP (Fred Hollander) writes:
>In article <76252@felix.UUCP> kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) writes:

<>The internal monitor is still monochrome, but surprisingly
<>the new machine has the exact same ROMs as the IIx, which means they include
<>the color Quick Draw routines.
 
>Does it say anything about expansion cards for color monitors?  I'd settle
>for portable monochrome if I could plug in a color monitor.  I'd especially
>like to use the Apple Color monitor.  Also, will it support the multiple-
>monitor desktop as does the Mac II?

The report doesn't say, but since you can plug a third party screen into
an SE today, I would be very surprised if you could not (eventually) use
an add-on color monitor. Actually, it's the people with the SE's that have
two monitors here. One writer refused a Mac II because she wanted the extra
half meg of memory and those two monitors. That's how I lucked into the
Mac II as a new writer here.

>By the way, what is this Mac II report?
 
It's a rather plain chatty newsletter that sometimes assumes we are 
following these two writers (Thom Hogan and Michael Swaine). They write
other books, documentation, columns in major magazines, and consequently
have lots of excuses about why they didn't get the current issue out on
time or why it's so short. 

Originally it was $48 per year (12 issues) and promised to write about
Mac II specific issues. That was important at first, but now it seems
to me that Mac II runs some things better than SE - specifically the
system software. If you don't do color, I'm not sure there is really
that much different about Mac II anymore.

I would write and ask for a sample issue, and they'll probably send the
largest issue they've written, which was the December issue (28 pgs). They want
$60 per year now, unless you're an original subscriber to whom they 
promised a continuing subscription at $48. I'm not sure I'll continue
even at that "reduced rate."

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Shirley Kehr



>>Shirley Kehr
>
>Fred Hollander
>Computer Science Center
>Texas Instruments, Inc.
>holland%ti-csl@csnet-rela
>
>The above statements are my own and not representative of Texas Instruments.