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- Path: sparky!uunet!ukma!gatech!news.byu.edu!eff!world!tombaker
- From: tombaker@world.std.com (Tom A Baker)
- Subject: Re: Laser 128
- Message-ID: <C1LKut.BBy@world.std.com>
- Organization: Me, at The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <ao70201@pro-scat.cts.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 04:08:52 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In article <ao70201@pro-scat.cts.com>
- richards@pro-scat.cts.com (Richard S. Claudio) writes:
- >What is the main differences between the Laser 128 and the Apple //eand
- >//c.
- >Just bought one and would like to know the difference.
-
- Price, probably. Get a good deal on it?
-
- Nice machine, but there are two gotchas that you might think about. One
- is that the serial port is NOT wired up the same as Apple's, so a lot
- of communication programs will just hang when you try them; other programs
- will work just fine. (One that won't is the America Online software.)
-
- A second is the little switch on the bottom of the machine for Slot 5.
- I *think* I might have this right (please someone tell me I'm wrong about
- this) but the documentation seems to say that ...
-
- You can set the switch one way, and use Slot 5 to hold something like
- a meg of internal RAM, or ...
-
- You can set the switch the other way and use the external connector
- for a hard drive and a RAM card, both as Slot 5, ...
-
- But you can't do both.
-
- Aside from those, the documentation is not as good, and the lettering on
- the keycaps comes off more easily. Also, Apple still supports the //e and
- //c, while I get the idea that Laser wishes all its old Apple clones would
- disintegrate and go away.
-
- Last, though, I like my Laser 128EX/2 a lot and I expect it to number crunch
- through the end of Clinton's first term and beyond.
-
- tombaker
-