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From: hamish@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: not good news
Message-ID: <1998.271c7751@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 17 Oct 90 02:22:57 GMT
References: <3535@mindlink.UUCP> <1990Oct15.132313.24705@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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In article <1990Oct15.132313.24705@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, ragg0270@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Richard Alan Gerber) writes:
> OK. Here's what I saw on the news wire:
> 
 Heres a few more bits from the apple blurb I got yesterday. (Isn't it
wonderful being the first in the world!)

> Mac Classic $999. 9-in BW screen. 68000 processor.
>
  Equivalent to Mac SE. Ugly as sin with a curved front, 1 ADB port 1Meg RAM,
External disk port, 2 serial ports, sound output port.
Can have internal 40Meg HD.

Available yesterday (16 Oct)
 
> Mac LC $3,098. 68020 processor. 2 Meg RAM. Hard Disk. Color capabilities.
>
 The low cost colour machine. 2 Meg RAM std. 16Mhz 68020 256 colours,
expandable to 32,000. No maths processor, no slots without optional expansion
board. No MMU? Doesn't mention A/UX

Released yesterday (16 Oct).
Available January 1991
 
> Mac IIsi. $3,769. 68030 processor. 2 Meg RAM. 80 Meg HD.
>
 20Mhz with 68882. 
Available yesterday.

> 
> Not a very complete discription, but that's all the story said.

Over here the price for a IIsi (the only one that would even compare to a 3000)
at education prices is more than the retail for a 3000 (@25Mhz). The classic is
dearer than the 500 still, and is only b/w.

There are only 7 m/c's left in the stable now, and they are...

  Classic
  SE/30
  Portable
  LC
  IIsi
  IIci
  IIfx

 All others are deleted, at least according to this pamphlet.
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