Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!exodus!concertina.Eng.Sun.COM!fiddler From: fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: The future of the past mac Message-ID: <2587@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 12 Nov 90 19:22:00 GMT References: <11390.273bec86@ecs.umass.edu> <39509@ut-emx.uucp> <1990Nov11.174115.29185@eng.umd.edu> Sender: news@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM Lines: 14 In article <1990Nov11.174115.29185@eng.umd.edu>, russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes: > > 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 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Please! 143K/drive... > bought in 1978 for around $1700 would probably go for about $100 -- ------------ The only drawback with morning is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day. ------------