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From: rob@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Robert K Shull)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Mac Classic delivery time = 3 months
Message-ID: <1991Mar7.021241.30897@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 91 02:12:41 GMT
References: <1991Mar6.135936.900@ulkyvx.bitnet>
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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In article <1991Mar6.135936.900@ulkyvx.bitnet> meharp01@ulkyvx.bitnet writes:
>OK, so i'm whining again......

Feel free. There were three of us in the office all whining together back
when the original Mac II was in the same situation.

>permutation of "demand was much higher than expected."  Good grief, fellas,
>doesn't Apple have a marketing research group?  Don't they read Mac[Week,

Perhaps the people at Apple listened to everyone on comp.sys.mac.*. You know,
all those people who predicted the Classic would sell something like 3 or 4
units a month :-) :-)

>I have heard a rumor that the fault is not with Apple, but with Conner, the
>folks who make the 1" disk drives.  Apple supposedly needed three times the

I think the drive in the IIsi is the same Conner that's in the Classic (I'm
quite sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong :-) ), and my wife's new IIsi only
took about 4 weeks to get here (in November) and most of that was waiting
on the NuBus adapter.

I'd bet the answer is real simple. Apple is selling all the machines they can
make right now, and dealers ALWAYS get top priority. For one thing, the
dealers are the ones that actually SELL Apple equipment. You know, convince
people to buy it, not just take orders from people who come in. (Or at least,
they're supposed to convince people. Never can seem to find one of those
dealers, myself.)

As for adding additional capacity, I'd have to be convinced you can pick up the
phone and order a 1500 unit-per-day computer factory for instant delivery (uhh,
can I get that with anchovies?) at a non-astronomical price. Not to mention
getting rid of it when the "introduction" sales boom inevitably winds down.

	Robert
>Michael Harpe

P.S. I'm assuming you're ordering through one of the Apple educational
programs. If you're ordering through a dealer, I'd suggest finding a
different one. Seem to be lots of them with Classics in stock.

P.P.S. They do show up eventually. At least with the Classic you don't have to
wait for all the pieces to come in. I waited 6 weeks for the video card for my
Mac II. Everything else was in. Had plenty of time to think about how useless
a Mac II is without a video card.
-- 
Robert K. Shull
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