Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sm.unisys.com!aero!venera.isi.edu!britt From: britt@venera.isi.edu (Benjamin Britt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: MacWorks Plus Summary: Is it worth it? Keywords: lisa xl macworks obsolete Message-ID: <6108@venera.isi.edu> Date: 18 Aug 88 21:26:38 GMT References: <6526@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> Reply-To: britt@venera.isi.edu.UUCP (Benjamin Britt) Organization: Information Sciences Institute, Univ. of So. California Lines: 21 MacWorks Plus- the compatibility package transforming an XL into a MacPlus- could be a good deal to us orphaned Lisa owners but I am wary of the $200 Sun Remarketing is charging--particularly so since I already bought Sun's HFS product and will have to essentially buy it again in MacWorks Plus (Sun offers no software trade-in allowance for it's customers). The cost of a real MacPlus is just over $1K and the thought of getting a much faster processor, real Apple ROMs, sound, a SCSI interface, an 800K disk drive, multiple-vendor SIMM memory to 4 Megs, and not having to worry about buying yet-another-upgrade-hack in another few months is very tempting. Ben -- Benjamin Britt USC/Information Sciences Institute