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From: ajq@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac Plus ??
Summary: My hard drive is only slightly slower than an SE internal
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Date: 6 Dec 88 23:00:58 GMT
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In article <401920b8.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu> billkatt@caen.engin.umich.edu (Steve Bollinger) writes:
>Suffice to say, the Platinum Plus will work
>with any hard drive that the SE will.  But the SE will do so more than
>50% faster.
>
> Steve Bollinger  billkatt@caen.engin.umich.edu 

Huh?  I've got a Mac Plus (platinum, born February 1988) with an external
Everex EMAC-20DL hard disk.  My roommate has a Mac SE with Apple's internal
hard disk.

We tested the machines for speed differences.  We put the same several-page
long Microsoft Word document on each disk and then opened it at the same
time.  The SE beat the Plus only by 3 seconds.  That's probably average
for most routine operations.

I maintain a lab on campus with twenty hard-disk equipped Mac SEs.  They
don't seem to work noticably faster than my Mac Plus.

Rumors once called for the phase-out of the Plus.  But didn't Apple just
retool its factory to build Plus's cheaper?  Doesn't sound like something
a company would do right before discontinuing a product.


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