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- Subject: Re: IIci advice
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.005956.45743@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 00:59:56 CST
- References: <1992Dec17.134506.13373@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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- In article <1992Dec17.134506.13373@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, hills@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Hills Matthew D) writes:
- >
- > Howdy. I am planning on purchasing a IIci soon through Berkeley's computer
- > center. Anyway, I am considering what stuff is useful to get at this
- > point.
- >
- > Two possible configurations:
- > Mac IIci 5/80, 16" Apple monitor w/ DoubleColor SX Graphics Card
- > Mac IIci 5/230,14" Apple monitor, 8*24 Apple graphics card
- >
- > Any comments on which is better? or on what other stuff I should get to
- > get the system optimized in about this price range? I am not into pirating
- > and don't have enough money to buy tons of software and I don't collect
- > graphics, so disk space doesn't need to be maximized, but I expect to use
- > stuff like Textures and Think C (etc).
- >
- > How worthwhile is the 16" and the graphics card in question?
- >
- > (I don't need the graphics card for the 14", but extra colors... and it
- > has the VRAM onboard, right?--how much speed improvement?)
- >
- >
- > Thanks for any advice,
- >
- > Matthew Hills
- > hills@cory.Berkeley.EDU
-