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From: ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: Re: needed: 1 old mac -- working and cheap.
Keywords: Classic, modem
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.012356.3554@oswego.oswego.edu>
Date: 24 Apr 91 01:23:56 GMT
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In article <13525@ur-cc.UUCP> afry@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Alan R. Fry) writes:
>I would *really* encourage your friend to look at a Mac Classic.  University
>and street prices run about $800 without a hard drive and about $1200 with 2
>meg RAM and a 40 meg HD.  You get a whole lot more computer than the Plus
>(sound input, 1.4 meg FDHD floppy drive, ADB connectors, faster than a Plus,
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^

I'm generally in agreement, but I think you're wrong on the sound input part.
So far as I know, only the si and the LC have builtin sound.  You still need
a MacRecorder (or similar) with the Classic....

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