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From: ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Any GOOD reasons to buy Classic vs. Plus?
Keywords: Classic, Plus
Message-ID: <1990Oct19.212625.23508@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Date: 19 Oct 90 21:26:25 GMT
References: <3121@mrsvr.UUCP> <4835@crystal9.UUCP> <1990Oct18.152951.20254@cs.umn.edu> <1990Oct18.170523.10117@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY
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In article <1990Oct18.170523.10117@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> rsb5c@watt.acc.Virginia.EDU (Richard S. Bondi) writes:
>A thread should be started on this subject.  

Good point, we've been discussing around the office recently....

>20MB hardrives external can be had for just over&under $300, and 20MB is just 
>about all anyone who just needs a Plus or Classic, needs.

This is certainly debatable.  A few years ago, maybe, but user expectations
change with time.  Anyway, one argument for the Classic is the fact that it
takes an *internal* hard drive.  For about $300 you can buy a FAST (12ms)
40MB Quantum ProDrive.... sure beats a 40ms $300 external 20MB drive!

>with external floppy dirves costing $200 mail order

Regardless of whether you have a Plus or Classic, I would spend the extra
$100 and get some kind of external hard disk instead of the floppy.


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