3.1266 Mac affairs, cont. (73)
Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Thu, 5 Apr 90 22:34:14 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 1266. Thursday, 5 Apr 1990.
(1) Date: Wed, 4 Apr 90 23:04 CDT (6 lines)
From: Michael Ossar <MLO@KSUVM>
Subject: MacAdemia Conference
(2) Date: 5 April 1990, 15:43:42 EDT (25 lines)
From: FLANNAGA at OUACCVMB
Subject: expensive, not expansive, Macs
(3) Date: Thu, 5 Apr 90 15:26:41 EDT (18 lines)
From: "Eric Johnson DSU, Madison, SD 57042" <ERIC@SDNET>
Subject: MaxSPITBOL for the Macintosh
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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 90 23:04 CDT
From: Michael Ossar <MLO@KSUVM>
Subject: MacAdemia Conference
People who would consider participating in a MacAdemia conference are a
bunch of nuts.
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Date: 5 April 1990, 15:43:42 EDT
From: FLANNAGA at OUACCVMB
Subject: expensive, not expansive, Macs
Hats off to Richard Goerwitz for making it very clear what Apple has
been doing that is morally wrong. While still pretending to be the
computer for the rest of us rebels, Apple is by its lawsuits and its
closed architecture and its protected interface showing a protectionism
worthy of a Romanian dictator. Not that IBM has not been guilty of much
of the same proprietary behavior. I forced myself to wait for an IBM
clone to appear on the market when I was told that the cable to connect
the original IBM to its monitor would cost about $250 and was sold only
by IBM. Both major companies are now at least to some extent hide-bound
and inflexible. There are basically two reasons why I have never bought
a Macintosh: (1) how it works is hidden from me, and, (2) if I buy
something to make the Mac better I have to buy it from Apple. There is
no clone market helping to keep Apple honest or competitive--except,
perhaps, for Stephen Jobs's NeXT. Compaq, Dell, Everex all keep IBM
hopping and hoping to do something genuinely innovative. Because of the open
architechture and the vacant slots in IBM's new machines, and because of
MS-DOS as a standard operating system, IBM's attitude toward innovation
comes out looking cleaner than Apple's. (This all has very little to do
with preference for one type of machine over the other; in fact, the
Macs, the PS2's and the clones are looking more and more similar every
day, despite all the look and feel cases.) Roy Flannagan
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Date: Thu, 5 Apr 90 15:26:41 EDT
From: "Eric Johnson DSU, Madison, SD 57042" <ERIC@SDNET>
Subject: MaxSPITBOL for the Macintosh
In answer to the question by Rich Thompson and others, MaxSPITBOL
is certainly NOT in the public domain. It will run on any Macintosh
with 128K or larger ROM (it will not run on a 64K ROM machine); the
minimum RAM required is 384K, but more is useful; system version 4.1
or above is needed. This excellent implementation of SPITBOL provides
pull-down menus, on-line help, and all the features that Macintosh
users expect in first-class applications.
The cost of MaxSPITBOL is $195.00, but I have asked Catspaw, Inc.,
if there could be a discounted price for students in the course on
programming for the humanities which I plan to teach via BITNET.
-- Eric Johnson
ERIC@SDNET.BITNET