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Re: Low-Cost Macintosh

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From: Eugene Bradley
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1990 16:13
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Why not have Macintosh clones like the people at MeSsy-DOS have?
Too bad I don't know how to program a mac, but if I did, I would design a
68050 and sell the circuit for $1!!!  I'd sell the computer itself (including
MS-Works on a 50-meg hard drive [which I can build]) for about $500.

P.S. It would be compatible with a Mac IIci and can run *all* software *with
no patches necessary*. Its name:

The Zetra X computer.

Yes, the Zetra X computer can let you use DA's, fonts, FKEYs, CDEVs, whatever
the overpriced Mac can do (and more, for half the cost of a Plus).  5 SCSI
ports are included, along with *10* NuBus expansion slots.  You can use the
LaserWriter printers for printing, or use our PostScript printer (with *50*
fonts in memory and with its own hard disk [~100 MB] so that you can store 
your own fonts, which I will give away for free!).  The cost of the printer
(which has ATM built-in the ROM [in the system and the printer]):  *$125.30*!!!

Oh, and if you need a cheap, *Hayes-compatible* modem, it can emulate any speed
(combined with MS-Works' communications component) from 300 baud to 10e+07 
baud!  The cost:  *$99.43*!!!

As for monitors, you can use our *$10* monitor (a 13-incher, with the power
to display > 1,000,000 colors and in *48-bit* mode) included with the system,
and for another *$2*, I can give you a 19-inch monitor with the power to
display > 10,000,000 colors and in *72-bit* mode.

The circuits will be a *100-MHz* 68050 w/ PMMU and virtual memory.  I will also
have a 68885 math co-processor which I will build (the co-processor will run 
@ *75-MHz*).  I will also have 64-bit QuickDraw built into the ROM and a 
"uni-patch" that will make *all* programs written for the Mac run on my 
Zetra *without* having to add any patches to the software.

As for a disk drive, I will build a *500-GB* HD with 250ns access time.  A
disk drive (which I will also build) will hold > 4MB of info.  You can use
any 3.5 or 5.25 inch disk.  If your disk is a SS/SD, it will hold 1.5 MB of
info; SS/DD will hold 2.2 MB of memory; DS/DD will hold 3.0 MB of memory;
and DS/HD will hold 4 MB of memory.

Speaking of MB, my computer will have 25 MB of memory *standard*, with the 
ability to expand to 50 MB.  

N.B.  You can customize my computer with as many utilities (software and 
hardware) as much as you like.

Send replies/flames to the address below or to the net, which I read often.
Remember, this is IMHO.

bradley@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Eugene Bradley)

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From: bradley@andromeda.rutgers.edu.rutgers.edu (Eugene Bradley)
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Subject: Re: Low-Cost Macintosh
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Date: 3 Feb 90 16:13:07 GMT
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