🚀 go-pugleaf

Well, I have a few extra bucks to spend, and a lot of water has
gone under the proverbial bridge since I bought my 512K mac a couple
of years ago.  There are two obvious paths to take at this point,
but I don't think I want to spend the money doing both...

1) I can upgrade my Mac to a Mac+ (possible memory upgrade)
2) I can buy some variety of hard disk.

I see the following points:

(favoring upgrade)
Increasing amount of software that wants to live with the new
roms (Servant, for example, right?).

Increased 800k disk drives.

SCSI port to support a *later* hard disk addition (the best hard
disks are SCSIfied nowadays).

(favoring disk)
A Mac+ isn't terribly interesting without a hard disk.

Things like C compilers, public domain M2 compilers, TeX, and the like
are very painful to use without plenty of disk space.

I'm a lot more tired of swapping diskettes around than I am
perturbed by the slow but sure demise of the vanilla 512K Mac.

(other considerations)

I should wait until after the usual price shakeup and product
announcements that happen every January.

ThunderScan won't work on a Mac+ because the printer port doesn't
have a power pin any more (is this true?).

My 400k external floppy gets trashed/sold either way, doesn't it?
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So...what do people think I oughta do, and why?
IMPORTANT NOTE: send your reply to ME, not the whole net.  I'll
summarize responses if there are many.
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   Mike Urban
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