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From: gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Consortium pricing on new macs
Message-ID: <1990Oct19.234111.8575@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 19 Oct 90 22:39:30 GMT
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In article <1990Oct19.201213.7782@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, gkj@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gregory K Johnson) writes...
> 
>It is true that the Mac Classic is advertised at $750.  But they will try
>to sell you a whole bunch of things with it, because $750 is just about
>dealer cost on the machine.
> 
>I went in, bought a Mac Classic with 4 MB of ram and a 40 mb internal hard
>drive for $1462, which is less than what I would have paid had I bought
>the machine at $750, bought a memory expansion card at the educational
>discount price here of $116, 3 SIMM's and an external hard drive mail order.
>And they'll have it for me by next week, and I won't have to void the
>warranty by installing anything myself.  So I think I got a pretty good
>deal (I imagine dealer cost on the machine to be $1200-1300).  But most
>importantly, I won't have to wait six weeks for them to deliver the
>"educationally discounted" machines.



What was the name of the place?


Robert


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