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From: henry@rochester.UUCP (Henry Kautz)
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Subject: oreo
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Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 16:11:14 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  7 16:11:14 1985
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So, the new "open" Mac will have a *SINGLE* expansion slot.  Now, that's
rumor that I find very credible, unlike all this silliness about Apple
building a Unix machine.  (Why on earth would Apple want to support 
another non-business-mainstream
OS?  Scully will have the Mac running DOS
long before Unix...)  But the single slot mac makes sense:
1.  It proves that even with Jobs gone, Apple can continue to bungle
the Mac.  Consumers are reassured by consistency in a company.
2.  Companies (including Apple) will make big $$$ on the boards for that
slot, because users will have to keep throwing out their old boards, and
buying more and more powerful and costly multi-function boards, whenever
they need a new hardware feature.
3.  It will prevent any 3rd party from introducing a popular color
board for the Mac.  Most upscale users will have that slot filled with
more memory or a tape-backup controller, and thus there will not be 
a sufficient market for a color board.  Apple, of course, wants
everyone to throw away their computers and 
buy a new color mac when they are introduced in 1987.
---- Henry Kautz
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