Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!batcomputer!munnari.oz.au!metro!extro!norton From: norton@extro.ucc.su.oz.au (Norton Chia) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Apple Trade-in Offer Message-ID: Date: 16 Apr 91 07:33:48 GMT References: <3757@ux.acs.umn.edu> Sender: news@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia Lines: 31 Nntp-Posting-Host: extro.ucc.su.oz.au oleary@ux.acs.umn.edu (Doc O'Leary) writes: >What's even worse is that I could upgrade my year-old SE to an SE/30 for >$1250 (a price which has not dropped one cent since I bought my SE!!!!). >However, I were to trade it in and buy an SE/30, I'd get a comparable >machine that has only 3 Meg memory (I'd keep my extra two, since Apple ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >is only offering $25.00 for 1 Meg SIMMs (ha!)) and it would cost $215 >more! The difference is even greater when taxes and such are taken into >account. >********************** Signature Block : Version 2.4 ********************* >* | "Please put litter in its place" * >* "Was it love, or was it the idea | ---McDonald's packaging * >* of being in love?" -- PF | Wouldn't that be on the ground? * >* (BTW, which one *is* Pink?) | * >* | --->oleary@ux.acs.umn.edu<--- * >****************** Copyright (c) 1991 by Doc O'Leary ******************** It's been a while since I've seen people who think they know what they're talking about on the net - 3 megs in an SE/30!! Maybe with 512K SIMMs if the SE/30 took them. One meg plus the two left over from your SE? Nahh... IMHO, he probably deserves some other computer. -- <<<< My employers ignore me, I'm on my own when I speak out in public :^( >>>> < Norton Chia | Mail me on norton@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU APPLELINK:AUST0240 > < Micro Support | "There are only 3 types of people in the world: > < Uni of Sydney | Those who can count, and those who can't" >