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- Subject: Re: New Mac Machine releases
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 03:43:45 GMT
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- classicIII will not be RISC ready. apple will have another one case design
- mac(classicIV?) later this year with 14 inch monitor and a accessory slot
- for POWERPC processor.
- Quatra800 will not be a boxy machine, based on macweek. it is smaller than 950.
- "dangerous curves ahead", said macweek.
- i think Q800 will be able to upgrade to PowerPc. but who knows....
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- In article <wstuartj.727764719@lucky.ecn.purdue.edu>, wstuartj@lucky.ecn.purdue.edu (W Stuart Jones) writes:
- > bylsma@unixg.ubc.ca (Dieder A. Bylsma) writes:
- >
- >>Just spoke to my local mac dealer...surprised that I could get as much
- >>neat info as I did...
- >
- >>Quadra 800 apparently is essentially a Q950 shell cut in half. Apparently
- >>quite boxy...nicknamed 'frigidaire' during development.
- >
- > When will the Quadra 800 be available?
- >
- > I heard in an old MacWeek that the New Classic (the Classic III) will be
- > "RISC ready" for the PowerPC chip. Does anyone know if the 800 will be "RISC
- > ready" also?
- >
- > Thanks in advance,
- >
- > Wesley Stuart Jones
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- > %% Wesley Stuart Jones jonesw@res.wes.mot.com %%
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