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Steve Firth <filter@firthcom.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Rebecca and Rowland <real-address-in-sig@flurbletigibbet.rhubarb.foobar>
> wrote:
> 
> > I'm going to pick nits and point out that if anyone's ever persuaded a
> > 128K thin Mac (or any of that ilk) to run two displays I'd be *very*
> > surprised.
> 
> Maybe not that antique, but it can be done on any Mac with an external
> SCSI interface. 

Really?  Even a Mac Plus? - if so, I'd like to know about it, 'cos I've
got a Mac Plus and a sensibly-sized monitor would be nice).

>I know you like to pop up with these snippets from the
> dawn of computing, but I was there and have moved on,

I'm going to nit-pick again, and point out that the dawn of computing
was something like 2000 years ago, and the dawn of digital electronic
computing was more like 50 or 60 years ago.

> and I'm not going
> to start prefacing every one of my replies with lists of exceptions from
> the Fat Macs backwards.

That would be perfectly sensible if the old Macs were extinct.
Admittedly, 128K and 512K Macs aren't much use, but the 512Ke and Plus
models *are* useful even now (they can run System 6.0.8; a Plus can even
run 7.5.5 if you're deranged).  We've got a Plus in regular use at the
moment, and a 512Ke that I'm going to get LocalTalked as soon as I get
round to it.

Rowland.




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