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Article #37657MACH, magneto-optical drives, MAPLE
From: David J. Harr
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 1989 02:21
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 1989 02:21
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I have some questions about two or three things I caught in passing the last
couple of months in this newsgroup, and I was wondering if anyone had any
more information on them.
1) Someone mentioned that there was a group almost finished porting MACH
to the Mac II (maybe it will be called MACH II?). Does anyone have
any hard information on this or know who I can contact as regards
availability, pricing, etc?
2)There was mention of a 3.5" magneto optical drive that had only around
125Mbyte capacity, as opposed to the 600+Mbyte capacity of the Jasmine
and Pinnacle Systems beasties. The reason it looked interesting was
because they mentioned that it was in the $1500-$2000 range as opposed
to 6K plus for the Jasmine and Pinnacle models. Does anyone know
anything about this, the company name that is producing it or hard
information about the specs? A phone number will be sufficient to get
me started.
3) Because I am a poor-but-honest physics/math student, I would dearly
love to get Mathematica for my Mac II. However, I am more than a
little daunted by the $700+ price tag. It is frustrating to see a
fantastic research tool like that priced out of the reach of all but
the most wealthy faculty and students (especially when I've blown my
budget for the next three years by getting a Mac II). Anyway, I am
trying to evaluate the alternatives to Mathematica. Among the ones I
have heard mentioned are MATLAB (which I have used on our school's
PRIME) and MAPLE. Does anyone have information as to the availability
pricing, etc of these things? Especially, how do they stack up
against Mathematica?
Anyway, I am just trying to improve myself and my Mac a little at a time, so
I would be eternally (ETERNALLY adj. 1. A period of time stretching from now
until eternity, or a period of time lasting until tomorrow morning at 6:00am
whichever comes first.) grateful to you.
David
PS. Does anyone know where I can get old, burned out Mac keyboards? I need
the switches for the keys, as my keyboard has a couple of dead keys, and I
would like to replace them.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!cs.utexas.edu!sm.unisys.com!oberon!oxy!hammersslammers1 From: hammersslammers1@oxy.edu (David J. Harr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: MACH, magneto-optical drives, MAPLE Message-ID: <17422@tiger.oxy.edu> Date: 9 Feb 89 02:21:59 GMT Distribution: usa Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 Lines: 36