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From: bskendig@light.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
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Subject: Re: Apple won't let me buy a Macintosh LC?! (ANSWER)
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Date: 19 Mar 91 19:20:14 GMT
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In article <1991Mar19.175408.22377@macc.wisc.edu> keir@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Rick Keir, MACC) writes:
>I suspect that it is not Apple, but Princeton.
>... as far as I know, higher ed dealers still
>have the option of purchasing floppy LC models for resale.

Nope.  I've been told both by computer stores who sell Apple
equipment, and Apple employees through email, that the HD-less LC's
are not intended to be sold to the public either through retail or
through educational institutions; they're for departments who can hook
lots of them up to a fileserver.  Apple will only take special orders
from departments on them; they're built custom, I think I was told.

>..., because the number of unhappy customers with
>two-floppy machines we'd had in the last year was roughly
>equivalent to the number of people who bought two-floppy
>machines.  I've listened to them scream at us a month later when 
>they find out that they can't run anything on their machine 
>without a hard disk.  And that, in a nutshell, is why I don't 
>want to sell 2-floppy systems.

But I already have a hard drive, so I can run anything I want.  (I'm
already running System 7.0 beta off my hard drive and an old
two-floppy SE.)  If I can't move up to an LC without having to buy a
hard drive I don't want nor need nor have the money for, then I won't.

It's a shame, though.

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