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From: mldemsey@cs.arizona.edu (Matthew L. Demsey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
Message-ID: <505@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 6 Nov 90 03:29:52 GMT
References: <1990Nov5.191813.20961@news.clarkson.edu> <11133@goofy.Apple.COM>
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In article <11133@goofy.Apple.COM>, lsr@Apple.com (Larry Rosenstein) writes:
> In article <1990Nov5.191813.20961@news.clarkson.edu>, anthonjw@clutx.clarkson.edu (Jason W. Anthony,,,) writes:
> > 
> > Well, fair enough.  But if you don't think 15,000 orders before the machine
> > is even in production (!) isn't the start of momentum, I hate to think what
> 
> And Apple had orders for 125,000 of the new low-cost Macs.

  Yes, but that can safely be attributed to years of ill informed
and misled consumers who were hiding in the PC market coming over to
Mac now that its safe.  It in no way implies that those orders are
based on 125,000 well-researched opinions... although i am unsure of 
what the original response to the Mac 512s was... loki