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- From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
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- Subject: Re: New Quadras (and others) in Feb 1993
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.200238.13325@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 20:02:38 GMT
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- ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
-
- >The new Quadras will be introduced on February, not January, 15,
- >according to the latest MacWeek, and only one will be a Quadra.
-
- Yup, basically right after the MacWorld Expo, San Francisco just
- like Apple usually does.
-
- >MacWeek reports that Apple will introduce five new machines on
- >February 15 -- a 25-MHz LC III with a 32-bit data bus, a color
- >version of the Classic II, a Quadra 800, and two new Centris-
- >series machines.
-
- There was a lot of talk when the Quadras came out that Apple was
- never going to use the III designation after the Apple III debacle. Has
- this sentiment changed?
-
- >The Q800 is a 33-MHz '040 in a shorter version of the Q950
- >tower. 3 Nubus slots, 1 PDS slot, builtin Ethernet, 16-bit
- >graphics on 16-inch monitors and 8-bit on 21-inch monitors.
-
- I wonder if the Cyclone is going to use this box when it comes out?
-
- >According to the chart accompanying the article, the Q800 will
- >replace the Q700, the IIvx will replace the IIsi, the LC III
- >will replace the LC II, while the fate of the IIci is uncertain.
-
- Uncertain? I though that it was obvious that the Centris 650 is the
- replacement for the IIci...
-
- --
- -Hades (Brian V. Hughes)
- "No sir, I didn't like it."
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