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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: New Mac Frustrations
Message-ID: <1990Nov12.063801.2675@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 12 Nov 90 06:38:01 GMT
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In article <39536@ut-emx.uucp> awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes:
>In article <1990Nov11.074529.11452@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> wln@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (William L Nussbaum) writes:
>
>>the $400 to $600 additional (I can't imagine a 4-slot chassis would be
>>any more expensive than that) will save you $400 to $600 off a ci.
>
>I was at a show recently where the people (Third Wave, I think) who make the
>expansion chassis were demoing their hardware.  The suggested retail for their
>4 slot boxes, both for the SE/30 and for NuBus machines was around $1100.  I
>haven't seen them in mail order that I can remember.  The 8 slot versions went
>for around $2000.

For these prices, an industrial-strength power supply ought to be included.
(If you are going to do this, why not get a IIci in the first place?  Or
a IIx?)
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Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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