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From: cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz)
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Subject: Re: Amiga 3000 + AMAX == IIci?
Message-ID: <1990Sep24.140802.1802@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 24 Sep 90 14:08:02 GMT
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In article <4488@sage.cc.purdue.edu> ar4@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Piper Keairnes) writes:
>In <4593@crash.cts.com> oleg@crash.cts.com (Oleg Rovner) writes:
>
>>Apple Macintosh price list at the UCSD UniversitBookstore (prices for 
>>qualified UCSD faculty staff and students only! (as of 9.11.90))
>
>>M5737ll/a Macintosh IIci (4Mb, 1 Super Drive, '030 CPU, 25 MHz,
>>built in video) $4,100,00
>
>What makes one University's educational prices different from another?
>Here at Purdue University, the IIci with 4MB RAM costs $3820. The same setup
>with an 80MB Quantum drive is $4286.

Wow, those prices are a bit on the steep side.  I'm not sure about
Columbia's edu. program (last I heard we didn't even have one), but
there is a store called Computer Era in New York City which sells
a vanilla IIci with 1 meg RAM, and internal floppy for ~$3200.  Add
in the cost of a few simm modules and a decent multisync and you have
about the same (or less?) price as your edu discount.  Where is the
"discount" if one can go out to a store and buy the machine for the
same price?

>
>What also upsets me is that these prices are listed as up to date as of
>September 15th and they exactly match the prices listed as of August 15th.
>Wasn't there a significant drop in the IIci's price before/on September 15th?
>When will this be reflected?!? (If ever...)

Yeah, I don't recall seeing any big differences in pricing either.  Maybe
the dealers are keeping this as an extra margin???

Anyway, I'm no expert.  I'm just judging by the advertisements I read
in the New York Times Science edition every Tuesday.

>-----
>Piper Keairnes
>ar4@sage.cc.purdue.edu

Cheers,

Chris

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