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From: hellerst@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (Joe Hellerstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac Plus ??
Message-ID: <771@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 6 Dec 88 14:43:57 GMT
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From article <508NETOPRRW@NCSUVM>, by NETOPRRW@NCSUVM.BITNET (Rich Wood):
>    The only major gripe
>    I have about the Plus is the difficulty of working with a hard drive.
>    I have heard many complaints about this.  

What difficulty?  There's no difficulty hooking up a SCSI drive (esp. an
external one, although internal ones are ususally fine) to the Plus.
In fact, the Plus has the advantage of being bundled with only one
floppy drive, whereas the SE has either 2 floppy drives, or one floppy and
a ridiculously overpriced apple hard drive.  If you get the Plus, you save 
yourself the cost of Apple's peripherals -- there are equally good, and
*much* cheaper drives (hard or floppy) available from third party dealers.
The Plus allows you this flexibility;  the SE's marketing scheme rips you
off.  (It is true that you can't get an SE without either the 2 floppies or
a built-in HD, true?  That's the way it is through Harvard, and in all the ads 
I've seen.)
	It is true that the SE allows you to work effectively at a higher
interleaf than the Plus, allowing marginally faster hard disk response time.
But it's hardly worth $1000, which is about what the difference is between an SE
with apple hard disk, and a Plus with a 3rd party hard disk.

Joe Hellerstein