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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Mac Classic cheap Power Supply...
Message-ID: <1990Oct24.212549.817@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 24 Oct 90 21:25:49 GMT
References: <1990Oct21.133912.14179@slhisc.uucp> <424sis-b@massey.ac.nz> <1990Oct24.091054.261@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk>
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In article <1990Oct24.091054.261@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk>, ralph@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Ralph Martin) writes:

|> Well, at the launch of the new machines in the UK, which was mainly attended
|> by dealers, developers and a few others like myself, we were told that an
|> advantage of the Mac Classic having a single voltage power supply would be
|> that it would cut down grey imports. They didn't go quite so far as to say
|> it had been deliberately done for that reason though. (If it had, I would
|> have expected them to do it to the more expensive ones too, where the
|> profits for grey importers are higher.) Also, they did promise that grey 
|> imports would also be reduced by UK pricing being brought into line with
|> US pricing, which does seem to be roughly true.

Did they really say this? Good grief.
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu