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From: cohill@vtserf.cc.vt.edu (Andrew M. Cohill)
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Subject: Re: Alleged high cost of Claris upgrade
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Date: 16 Jan 91 13:58:10 GMT
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Kevin Patfield was complaining about the cost of the $49 Claris upgrade;
I too thought it was a bit high until I actually purchased it.  You get
five disks, which any reasonable person would agree (maybe I'm
optimistic about the definition of reasonable on the net) would be worth
about $25 if that's all you got  (remember that Hypercard is on them,
with lots of really good stacks--no flames about how you can buy bulk
disks for 49 cents, so Claris should only charge $2.45 for HyperCard).

You also get a 578 page HyperTalk manual that is easily worth $25 by
itself;  they did a nice job with it, and is much better than the Apple
HyperTalk book, which was much smaller.

Anyway, $25 (for disks) and $25 (for the book) is $49, or thereabouts,
and a darn good deal.  I still can't figure out why no one expects free
software from IBM, but Apple is supposed to be a charity organization.

-- 
|          ...we have to look for routes of power our teachers never       
|              imagined, or were encouraged to avoid.   T. Pynchon          
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|Andy Cohill        cohill@vtserf.cc.vt.edu            VPI&SU