Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!isi.edu!venera.isi.edu!jas From: jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Apple Trade-in Offer Message-ID: <17612@venera.isi.edu> Date: 17 Apr 91 20:40:59 GMT References: <3757@ux.acs.umn.edu> <3764@ux.acs.umn.edu> Sender: news@isi.edu Organization: USC-ISI Lines: 46 In-reply-to: oleary@ux.acs.umn.edu's message of 16 Apr 91 19:23:17 GMT In article <3764@ux.acs.umn.edu> oleary@ux.acs.umn.edu (Doc O'Leary) writes: >In article norton@extro.ucc.su.oz.au (Norton Chia) writes: >>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 >>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >>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. > >*Sigh* I didn't say I would be using a SE/30 with 3 Meg, I said it would be >the SE/30 I would be stuck with. If you want me to fill the other two slots, >that would bring the price difference to around $315 more for a machine with >just one more Meg. > >Was that an attempt to justify Apple's trade-in pricing or just a poorly >thought-out attempt at a flame? > His point, I think, was that you *can't* have a mac with 3MB. The only possible configurations for 2-bank machines is 1, 2, 4, 5, and 8 (assuming only 256K or 1MB SIMMS). In 1-bank machines (like pluses and SEs and (maybe) SE/30s), the configs are: 1MB 4MB Depending on whether you have 256K or 1MB SIMMS. jas -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffrey A. Sullivan | Senior Systems Programmer jas@venera.isi.edu | Information Sciences Institute jas@isi.edu | University of Southern California