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- From: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson)
- Subject: Re: Good old Darek
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.161342.27695@newshost.lanl.gov>
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- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
- References: <1993Jan5.230257.17299@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:13:42 GMT
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- In article 17299@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov, hyc@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov (Howard Chu) writes:
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- >I dunno about the Amiga, but anyone who claims that Macs are genuinely
- >upgradable is either a moron or has been brainwashed by the idiotic Apple
- >propaganda.
- >
- >The point being - we've already rehashed time and time again how "upgradeable"
- >PCs are. But to claim that Macs are upgradable *is* just pure BS, in my book.
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- Ah, c'mon, Howard. These comments may have been close to the mark for the
- early Macs, but certainly isn't the case for any of the modular ones (LC, si,
- ci, fx, vx, vi, quadra, etc). The ci has a cache card slot, SIMM sockets, and
- 4 Nubus slots into which may be inserted graphics adapters, ethernet cards,
- accelerators, sound cards, video capture cards, etc. You don't even have to
- turn a screw to "pop the hood" for access to the motherboard.
-
- Please don't take my comments, wrong. The original 520ST was an outstanding
- value in it's day and I _still_ believe that Atari systems provide a lot of
- "bang for the buck" given their ease of use and relative performance. But
- like it or not, Atari's are still basically closed systems... both in their
- architecture and the evident mindset at Atari HQ. ;-)
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