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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: A Classic Dead End?
Keywords: Classic,System 7.0
Message-ID: <1991May22.221952.23836@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 22 May 91 22:19:52 GMT
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In article <1991May22.205657.29565@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes:
|> Some students decided to hang around the place (a room in a University
|> building) where the Apple reps were evaluating equipment, and try to buy
|> the hardware for more than Apple was offering.  The Apple reps insisted
|> the students leave (I seem to recall that they threatened to call the police).
|> 
|> While I suppose this promotion may have been nice for a governmental
|> body which might have trouble selling equipment outright, I don't think
|> it won many friends among individuals.

Last year, the deal at Stanford (as I recall) was much more generous -
I got the impression the idea was to move people off 68000 machines,
because they were overvalued relative to the trade-up value of 020/030
models. Since the Classic, maybe Apple has decided the 68000 will be
around for a while after all.

This year, the deal doesn't look great. I think it is only good for
someone who has already bought their quota of educational-price
Macs and wants another.
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu