Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!iuvax!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!ajz
From: ajz@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (T. Tim Hsu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Classic Pricing
Message-ID: <15827@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 29 Oct 90 23:19:54 GMT
Reply-To: ajz@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (T. Tim Hsu)
Organization: Purdue University
Lines: 32


I'm having problems mailing this at the moment, so I'm posting this
instead even though it belong in e-mail.  It's about the pricing of a
Mac Classic, so for those uninterested, read the next article.

I work part time (very part time right now) for a section of the
computing department that handles personal perchases.  A student can get
a Mac Classic with the keyboard (most Macs are NOT sold with keyboards
these days), 1 Meg of RAM, and a 1.44 Meg floppy drive for $799.

However, this is a pretty useless machine by itself.  You will really
need a hard drive since most useful programs these days are rather large
and since a useful system won't really fit on one disk.  A seperate
hard drive will run about $300 for a 20 Meg and it goes up from there.
You could get a floppy drive, but it would cost you anywhere from $150
to $200, so for only a bit more you would get the greater versitility of
a hard drive.

The machine I recommend people is the Mac Classic with the keyboard,
2 Megs of RAM, a 1.44 Meg floppy drive, and a 40 Meg hard drive for
$1199.  You really can't piece a machine starting from a base Classic
for much lower than this.

This is the standard university discount price that Apple gives, but
if Businessland will sell you a base model for $850 then they shouldn't
charge that much more for the model I just described.

-- 

T. Tim Hsu                           UUCP    ...pur-ee!ajz@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
                                     ARPA    ajz@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
FAX  1 317 494 0566                  BITNET  xajz@PURCCVM