Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!udel!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!wb1j+ From: wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M. Bumgarner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: SIMMS (was Re: Dr. Mac: a mail order house to avoid Message-ID: Date: 13 Oct 89 15:24:33 GMT References: <15764@duke.cs.duke.edu> <1989Oct12.234039.15738@rpi.edu> <1989Oct13.035339.1580@agate.berkeley.edu>, <27712@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 12 In-Reply-To: <27712@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> The price drop is leveling out now... Where it was $5-10 a week not long ago, is now $1-2 a week, often no change at all... The nicest change was the Chip Merchant moving from 100ns parts to 80ns parts AND dropping prices. If you can afford it, go for it now-- the extra wait probably won't be worth the lost time waiting for a 1 meg machine (or not being able to run two apps at once). b.bum wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu