Windows for Macs
A message for the veteran Macintosh user, from the
people at Microsoft:
Have you felt left out of recent personal computer
developments? Does it feel like the advances of the
computer world are passing the Macintosh by?
You've probably been using the Macintosh for a number
of years now. You've gotten used to the idea that a
computer doesn't have to have a cumbersome awkward
interface based on obscure cryptic commands. And
you've grown accustomed to the user interface standard
to which all the other user interfaces are compared.
An interface that remains consistent across a variety
of applications that really do give you the power to be
your best.
But recently, all the attention seems to have moved away
from the Macintosh. Developments in the IBM-PC world have
overshadowed the enhancements being made to your favorite
computer. Macs are no longer in the spotlight, no longer
the leading edge of computing technology that they once were.
Or so it seemed to much of the world. Until now.
Announcing, at last, a revolutionary new system that gives
you even more consistency, compatibility, and capability
than you've ever known before.
Announcing...
Microsoft Windows for the Macintosh
Yes, all the power you've come to know on your IBM PC will soon
be available on the Macintosh, too. Get all the power and
function of Windows applications like Microsoft Word for Windows
and Microsoft Excel for Windows, right there on your Macintosh.
Now the Macintosh user will come to know what users of Windows
on the IBM PC have known for some time now: that a powerful
graphical icon-based user interface will give you even more
power to be your best than you've ever had before!
Prices:
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Microsoft Windows for the Macintosh $395 (requires 4MB RAM,
(comes with Windows for the Mac, hard drive,
Toolbook for Windows for the Mac, AppleTalk,
plus two exciting applications: Mac IIfx or SE/860,
Write/Mac and Paintbrush/Mac) and System 7.0)
Microsoft Word for Windows for the Mac $495 (requires 8MB RAM,
hard drive,
LaserWriter IINT)
**upgrade for current word processor users: $129
Microsoft Excel for Windows for the Mac $695 (requires 16MB RAM,
hard drive,
WinMac TrueType
Display Manager XL,
System 8.2)
**upgrade for current users of anything: $129
Microsoft Windows for the Macintosh (A/UX)
$2095 (requires 32MB RAM,
A/UX 5.4.3, CD-ROM,
WinMac TrueType Display
Manager for A/UX,
X for Windows for the
Mac)
Hypercard for Windows for the Macintosh (*)
$249 (requires Mac IIux
or Mac IIImx with
64MB RAM, 4GB disk
drive, WinMac TrueType
Display Manager for
the Mac or Adobe
Display Postscript +)
(* - also available: Toolbook for the Macintosh -- includes
conversion tool for converting Hypercard stacks into
Toolbook applications to run on your new enhanced Mac!
Also includes Toolbox Toolbook, Toolbook Toolbox, and
extra added Snap-On Tools for tear-off menus.)
Availability:
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Pending favorable outcome of ongoing legal action between
who-knows-who and who-knows-why. Expected release date -- some
year with a zero in it. Void where prohibited by lawsuit.
Your look and feel may vary.