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...fast -- four times as quick as the original. It is loud -- with stereo sound. It is expandable -- with six plug-in slots for peripheral devices. And for the first time on a Macintosh screen, it has color selected from a palette of 16 million hues and displayed on a 13-inch monitor. This week Apple Computer unveiled its Mac II, a spiffy unit priced at $3,899 (monitor not included). Yet the Mac II is most notable for a departure from Apple's previous products: with the proper accessories, it can run the huge library of software written...
Software can be used on the IBM PC or Macintosh in the library, or on one of the eight Macs or two PCs in the first-floor computer room...
...library's software collection is strongest in IBM-compatible software. Most of the Macintosh programs, such as MacPaint, MacDraw and MacWrite are available in the first-floor computer room. Other programs, such as Jazz and Pagemaker, are available in the library...
Once logged on to Class 4, IBM users should type FTP HUSC6 and Macintosh users should type FTP SUMEX-AIM.ARPA. FTP is a program which enables users to hook-up to other computer system; in this case HUSC6 which contains the Harvard Computer Society's Public Domain software library and SUMEX which has thousands of Macintosh programs...
...users connected to SUMEX should type cd info-mac. Any files with a .HQX extension are actual Macintosh files; other listings are directories which can be entered and examined with the CD and LS commands respectively...