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From: wlj1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Wayne L Jebian)
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Subject: Re: Price of NEW Macs (for comparison)
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Date: 26 Jul 90 21:32:58 GMT
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In article <139326@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@stpeter.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes:
>In article <1990Jul19.184108.1055@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> (Ethan Solomita) writes:

>
>Maybe I can't read, but this conclusion doesn't follow from the list
>below. To wit :
>
>->>M5880     Macintosh Plus w/Keyboard, 1 Mb RAM ...................  649.00
>
>This is the same as the _List_ price for an A500 + Keyboard + 1MB of RAM.
>The Educational price has got to be better than this, _and_ you get color
>instead of mono.
A500, 1 Meg ram, 2 3.5" drives and 1084 monitor for $800. how much is a Mac 
disk drive <3.5" that would fit inside the mac plus or an external>


>->>M5660     Macintosh IIcx CPU 1Mb ................................ 2848.00
>
>This is less than the A3000 ? I thought the A3000 was $2500 on the discount
>plan. And it comes with an extra MB of memory.

>->>MACINTOSH SE/II KEYBOARDS
>->>M0116     Apple Keyboard.........................................   95.00
>->>M0115     Apple Extended Keyboard................................  165.00
>
>And don't forget you need a keyboard too.
>So how do you come up with "And they're cheaper?"

The fact that you can purchase a computer and not have a keyboard in it kinda
makes me wonder.... i mean the amigas all come with a keyboard. besides, I'm 
from the "old school" i like typing in commands <which I gotta do on my crummy
C64

>--
>--Chuck McManis						    Sun Microsystems
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-Mark Dolengo