Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!umich!umich!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!mmdf From: fhwri%CONNCOLL.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Comments about the Classic. Message-ID: <34849@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Date: 29 Oct 90 13:42:53 GMT Sender: mmdf@ee.udel.edu Lines: 74 From amiga-relay-request@louie.udel.edu Thu Oct 25 14:11:10 1990 Received: from CUNYVM.BITNET for amiga-relay-request@louie.udel.edu with Thu, 25 Oct 90 18:11:09 GMT Received: from CUNYVM by CUNYVM.BITNET (Mailer R2.03B) with BSMTP id 826 25 Oct 90 13:41:49 EDT Received: from udel.edu by CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.2MX) with T 25 Oct 90 13:25:34 EDT Received: from louie.udel.edu by louie.udel.edu id am04421; 25 Oct 90 16 Received: from USENET by louie.udel.edu id aa04385; 25 Oct 90 12:32 EDT Received: from snow-white.ee.udel.edu by louie.udel.edu id ai04309; 25 Oct 90 12:31 EDT Received: from nigel.ee.udel.edu by snow-white.ee.udel.edu id ac05486; 25 Oct 90 16:27 GMT From: Donald P Perley Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Comments about the Classic. Message-Id: <13059@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 24 Oct 90 17:43:17 GMT Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY 12345 To: amiga-relay@udel.edu Sender: amiga-relay-request@udel.edu Status: O In article <1990Oct23.141531.24732@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, es1@cunixb ( Solomita) writes: >In article <34316@nigel.ee.udel.edu> fhwri%CONNCOLL.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny. writes: >>You made a big mistake; the McClassic comes with ONE floppy and ONE me >>RAM for $1000; a hard drive and another meg (making it at least a usab >>machine) bring the cost up to about $1500 list, which is about what yo >>pay for a 2 meg HD A500. >> > Why is it that so many people here are unable to >distinguish the concepts of list price and selling price? > The $1,500 classic sells for $1,171 on educational here >at Columbia. I would rephrase that... Why is it that so many people here are unable to distinguish the concepts of educational price and "normal" selling price? Great, you are a student (or faculty).. Apple will give you a deal.. Please don't act like that is a price that anyone can get. Based on local conditions, Amigas are easier to get a discount on than Macs. I imagine even more so if the Mac is a new model. For ME, and a lot of other people, comparing a moderately discounted amiga price to Mac's list price is the realistic thing to do. I suppose I could get some student to buy one for me, but then I might a well use only pirated software too. I guess I'm just stuck in the middle. I don't qualify for an educational discount. Even though I make a significant amount of money using my home computer, I can't adequately certify that I would lose my job without it, so I don't get any tax breaks from it either. -don perley perley@trub.crd.ge.com You'd probably be better off to buy an A500 with a hard drive (like GVP's) and extra RAM (GVP's will take up to 8 megs) and then buy A-MAX than to buy a Mac Classic. The Amiga would cost roughly $400-500 more, (the educational discount for an A500 with external drive and monitor is $799!) but you'd be able to run Mac AND Amiga software. You'd also be able to, for another $499, run all IBM software with the Pulsar board. Forget the Macccc(oops...stuck --Rick Wrigley fhwri@conncoll.bitnet