🚀 go-pugleaf

From:    <SECRIST%OAK.SAINET.MFENET@LLL-MFE.Arpa>   (Richard C. Secrist)
Date:    Tue, 14-OCT-1986 07:41 EST
To:      INFO-APPLE@BRL.ARPA
Message-ID: <[OAK.SAINET.MFENET].62E582C0.008F66A1.SECRIST>
Header-Disclaimer: I don't like my headers either !
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I bought a //e as an upgrade for my ][ many moons ago because I wanted
1) the real keyboard (i.e. "{}[]~`<DEL>", etc.), 2) pseudo-standard
80 column support, 3) future compatability , and 4) a new lease on life
(my ][ {upgraded to ][+} is now 9 years old !).

I WANT neato graphics and from what I hear absolutely wonderful sound,
but my brain also wouldn't mind hacking a "real" processor chip that I
might be able to use professionally as well (like a 68000 or 80286 --
there's compartively not a lot of 65xxx work out there).

If the //gs or an upgrade were under $1000 (like $750 or better) there
wouldn't be a contest... I've got 700 floppies of Apple software.  But
$1900 is ridiculous when I can go get a 68000 machine like an Atari 1024
or 520 (I can get the 520 for $750 locally with monochrome monitor) and
KEEP my //e and ][+.  The graphics are roughly equivalent to an Atari
(though probably not as fast) and the sound is probably not as spectacular,
although at least it is a standardized interface (the MIDI port).

$1900 simply doesn't cut it, and the upgrade motherboard swaps don't sound
so hot either when you've got to buy a Unidisk, mouse (already have this
though), and whatever else...

Throughly disappointed,

Richard
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