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From: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: fair MAC+ price - summary
Message-ID: <1990Jan14.015955.25087@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Date: 14 Jan 90 01:59:55 GMT
References: <7057@tank.uchicago.edu> <12741@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.oswego.edu (Boyd Ostroff)
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In article <12741@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> stuart@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (S. D. Ericson) writes:
>
>One good outfit is Sun Remarketing - they are the ones that have
>been keeping the Lisa (oops, cough) I mean the Mac XL running and
>up to date.  They offer a 90-day warantee on all products they
>sell.  Just as good as Apple's! Last year (spring '88) they offered
>a Mac Plus for $1049.  Could be a lot lower by now...
>

I have heard generally good things about Sun, but their prices seem a
bit high.  The educational price for a new Mac Plus here is $999, and
you should be able to get one at a "street" price for $1200.  I've seen
used Mac Plusses here on USENET for $600.

BTW, I got a real chuckle from an (unsolicited) copy of the COMB catalog
that showed up in the mail the other day and says (page 21):

	"Our buyers thought that Apple's Lisa 2 Computers had all but
	disappeared.  Then we received word of a refurbisher who had
	an extensive inventory and wanted to move them out.  When
	Lisa 2 hit the market, it carried a price tag in excess of $10,000.
	Now you can own this upgraded Lisa 2/Mac XL hybrid for just $999.
	It's better than the original...yet lower in price!"

Now I wonder *who* that "refurbisher" is that "wants to move" their
Mac XL's....

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