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From: drxmann@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Dustin Christmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Info on new low-end Mac
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Date: 17 Jul 90 23:01:44 GMT
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In article <46200101@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> ragg0270@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>Name: Mac Classic    (Apple paid $1M for the rights to the name)
>Processor:  68000 @ 8 Mhz
>Screen:  9 in  monochrome
>External Ports:   SCSI
>		  2 serial
>		  Audio out
>		  (1 or 2 others, I can't recall, nothing dramatic)
>Drives:	1 1.44 Meg floppy
>Memory: 1 Meg
>ROM:    enhanced SE

Agreed. This equipment is _very_ low-end, especially when compared to the 500.
It looks like a rehash of the Mac Plus. BTW, what idiot thought up that ridi-
culous name?

>
>Price:  $1500
>
>40 Meg Hard Drive Model:  $2100

This on the other hand is highway robbery. In CBM's next biennial ad campaign,
they should bring this point up. Are we listening, Commodore?

Thanx,
Dustin Christmann

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