Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site uicsl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!keller From: keller@uicsl.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.apple Subject: Mac Rumors Message-ID: <30500001@uicsl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 18:55:00 EST Article-I.D.: uicsl.30500001 Posted: Fri Nov 30 18:55:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Dec-84 03:28:22 EST Lines: 43 Nf-ID: #N:uicsl:30500001:000:1662 Nf-From: uicsl!keller Nov 30 17:55:00 1984 Think I have heard that the 512k Mac is not the real "FAT Mac" and that the real one will be announced at the Apple annual meeting in January. Now a rumor about that: Apple is buying 20MByte 3.5 inch hard disks from Tandon for use in the new version of the Macintosh. About other things: I haven't heard a good explanation for the continued shipment of single sided floppy drive. Got any? Why not a faster printer? Say, something between the Imagewriter and the soon-to-be-announce laser printer. The rumors that I have heard are as follows: The January meeting will provide us with: - a local area net - a laser printer - a color Mac - hard disks for Mac - the replacement of the Lisa series with a Mac based series Now some things that I see as unavoidable in the future: - a lap sized Mac with LCD display (is there a cmos 68000?) - obvious extensions to the basic Mac that will result in something that looks similar to the workstation products from Sun, Apollo, etc. If they would just put the Mac in a package with some slots for plug-in boards like the Apple ][ they would please a lot of people. - a Smalltalk or LISP machine (they will be forced into one of these because of things like TI's integrated circuit version of the MIT Lisp machine and because they want to be at the cutting edge) - a much increased output from Apple's in house programming staff (they can't grow like they have been without developing more software) The number one question is... Will people still think that the Mac is special enough to buy when IBM matches the windowing environment with software for the PC and PCAT?