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From: rrd@hpfcso.HP.COM (Ray Depew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: not good news
Message-ID: <9010020@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Oct 90 20:22:41 GMT
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> Mac Classic

Can you say "excess inventory"?  I knew you could.

Don't be fooled.  Mac Classic isn't like Coke Classic.  Coke Classic was
brought back by popular demand, after the Mfr. discontinued it and everyone
clamored to have it back.  (Pepsi was all set to come out with a "Coke 
Classic clone" -- well, read the book "The Other Guy Blinked:  How Pepsi
Won The Cola Wars.")  

Anyway:  The Mac Classic isn't much more than a dressed-up original Mac.
(Which original Mac?  I don't remember.)  It had so many system limitations
that nobody was sad to see it get replaced by all the later models.  It's
obsolete and underpowered by today's standards, and isn't really worth the
money, when $1500 (or even $1000!) will buy you so much more.

Chances are that Apple is sitting on several million $$ of old inventory and
needs a good way to get rid of it.  Do you remember when the Amiga was
introduced, and there were stacks of C64's sitting in the center aisle of
K-mart?

Don't be fooled.  Your Amiga is still worth what you paid for it.

Ray 
rrd@hpfitst1.hp.com