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From: mute@wpi.WPI.EDU (Joshua Thompson Brandt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Mac Classic Pricing
Message-ID: <1990Oct26.145334.29139@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Date: 26 Oct 90 14:53:34 GMT
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Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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In article <11485@sybase.sybase.com> herb@katana.sybase.com (Herb Lison)
 writes:
>Businessland is offering company employees here a corporate discount
>on the new Mac products.  They are quoting a price of $850 for the
>Mac Classic, with 1Mb Ram and and a single floppy.  Does this seem
>like a reasonable price?  Also, is this configuration sufficient to
>run the various games and educational software packages out there
>for the Mac?  I'm thinking of getting a low end machine for a Christmas
>present for my kids.

I am a student, and therefore don't have much money. I'm not sure about
the statistics on a Mac Classic, but I run a Macintosh Plus with an 
enternal floppy, and have no problem playing games, writing occasional
papers, and running small Hypercard stacks. I have several system disks,
one with a tiny system, almost completely deviod of DAs and such, and with
only virus protection INITs and a few other utilities. I use this one 
for games and playing sounds, using Mac CD from the system disk. 
I have a second system disk, with a few of my favorite fonts installed, and
some handy DA's and a few more INITs than the other disk. I use
this one for Hypercard and word processing.
I haven't really had any problems with this. I have a Fuji external floppy,
which I also haven't had any problems with. I do have loads of floppys
lying around on my desk, but that's pretty normal. 
However, I really wouldn't like to be running it WITHOUT an external
floppy....

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