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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: The future of the past mac
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Date: 11 Nov 90 17:41:15 GMT
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In article <39509@ut-emx.uucp> clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Kathy Strong) writes:
>
>Hesitant buyer: "But if I wait a while, won't prices come down, or won't
>                 they add more features?"
>Experienced user: "If you don't mind waiting forever, the price will be 
>                   zero and the computer will be able to do everything."

Yep-- isn't an industry where price drops are the norm really something?
Today, the Apple II+, w/64K RAM and two 128K disk drives that my father
bought in 1978 for around $1700 would probably go for about $100

The Mac Classic, a more capable machine, retails for less than that Apple II+
did-- in actual dollar amounts-- and this is over 10 years later.
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Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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