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...computers are twice as powerful as the Macintosh, Apple's previous top-of-the-line model. MacPluses are selling as well as the Macintoshes even though they've only been available since late February, computer officials said...
...heavily recommending it over the [Macintosh]," said Scott O. Bradner, technical associate and senior preceptor in psychology. Bradner is currently using a MacPlus to make foreign language characters for the Harvard Theological Review. He said that the psychology department has just purchased one of the machines to use for experiments...
Apple is promoting its new product on the college market with the same marketing techniques that helped it snap up a large share of the college market two years ago with the highly publicized Macintosh. The computer firm invited college computer officials from all over the country to attend an all-expenses-paid information seminar on the MacPlus in San Francisco in January...
...told the press that his company would ship an important new program called Windows "before the snow falls." Microsoft made the deadline with a day to spare, despite early blizzards last fall. But the arrival of Windows, which gives an IBM computer the look and feel of an Apple Macintosh, could hardly be described as timely. Ballmer had previously announced four different release dates for the program, beginning with April 1984, and Microsoft had missed them all. In the parlance of Silicon Valley, the software had turned into vaporware, a product that is marketed before it exists...
...company fell so far behind schedule with the PCjr that it was forced to postpone delivery of its eagerly awaited home computer until after the Christmas sales rush. Apple, meanwhile, has still not delivered the large disk drive that was to have been the centerpiece of the Macintosh Office announced with great hoopla early in 1985. According to Stewart Alsop II, who publishes a vaporlist of tardy technology in his P.C. Letter, the problem has reached the point where "consumers often cannot tell what is being sold and what is just being talked about." Even Lotus, which earned a reputation...