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In article <43d58e$2n5@onramp.arc.nasa.gov>, josco@eco.arc.nasa.gov (Joseph Coughlan) writes:
|> In article <Summers-1509951528200001@ethyl-the-frog.arc.nasa.gov> Summers@Ethyl-the-Frog.arc.nasa.gov (David P. Summers) writes:

|> I disagree.  Look at today's MS Office and Mac's and even system 7.5x
|> is large.

|> Apple sells crippled systems to users and that means short life spans.
|> For instance I'm now teaching a MAC class and the only system I can
|> purchase from the Univ is a 5200 performa with 12MB and 800 MB HDisk.
|> No substitutes.  That's a crippled system given today's software.
|> Apple seems to want to sell stuff that has a short life span.

Excuse me?  What, exactly, do you mean by "crippled"?

The 5200 perfoma has at least one SIMM slot, so you can
put as much RAM in it as you can afford.  12 MB is generous; most PCs
come with 8.  If you use up that 800 MB disk, you can add 5 more to
the SCSI bus at what, 4 gigs per disk, for a "crippling limitation" of
20 gigabytes of storage.

|> Most students with older macs are out of luck with it's limited
|> expandibility for the types of systems apple sold cheaply.
|> I suspect the clone competition will force apple to change.

I got one of the cheapest PowerMacs I could, the PowerPC 6100.  I
opted for the A/V board; I am "limited" to only being able to add 64
MB of RAM, twenty gig of HD, 28.8 Modem, Ethernet connector, a
and serial port printer.  How is that "crippled"?  You use that word;
I do not think it means what you think it means.

|> In 1991 my 386-33 had 16MB and it's still good today because the ram is
|> enough to run OS/2 well.

The last machine that Apple made with a limit below 16MB RAM was the
Classic II and the LC in 1991.  What's your point?

Chris
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