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From: simogori@titisa.is.titech.ac.jp (shimogori nobuhiro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: The New Macs: Greedy Compromises?
Message-ID: <5595@titisa.is.titech.ac.jp>
Date: 4 Dec 90 12:28:51 GMT
References: <1990Nov30.201432.19210@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <6394@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> <1990Dec4.063839.13805@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <1990Dec4.063839.13805@Neon.Stanford.EDU>, torrie@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie) writes:
>  For example, a IIsi 5/80 bare CPU box (no keyboard) costs $NZ
>8,625...  consortium price to students...  Subtract off 12.5% sales
>tax and allowing for an exchange rate of $NZ 1 = $US 0.60 gives a US
>cost of $US 4,600.

Don't worry.  The situation doesn't much differ in Japan either.
The same thing costs approximatly $US 4,500 at the shop which is said to be
the cheapest in Tokyo.  If you include the sales tax(3%) it becomes
expensive than yours.
Only the rich has a color mac at home.
-- 
Nobuhiro Shimogori			Dept. of Information Science, 
simogori@is.titech.ac.jp		Tokyo Institute of Technology, 
					Tokyo, JAPAN