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From: sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hypercard - How About New Mac Owner
Message-ID: <134@stech.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Aug-87 11:24:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: stech.134
Posted: Fri Aug 21 11:24:00 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 23-Aug-87 05:17:49 EDT
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Organization: Scholastech, Inc., Waltham, Mass.
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in article <174400045@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu>, dorner@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu says:
> Nf-ID: #R:mtunj.ATT.COM:36:uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:174400045:000:736
> Nf-From: uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner    Aug 19 09:05:00 1987
> 
> 
> Why is Apple charging the $50 in the first place?  I can't imagine they
> are going to make lots of money from it.  It's far more than distribution
> cost.  Is it to give dealerships a profit on the thing?  Or is it to give
> an incentive to people to buy macs (they're getting something for free)?
> It sure isn't good PR--rightly or wrongly, most of us have come to expect
> to get operating system upgrades from Apple for free, and having to pay
> for this one hurts a little.
> 
> And will these things be posted on the BBS?  If not, what happens when
> Multifinder 1.1 comes out?  Another $50?
> ----


The $50 is closer to costs than you might think.  Hypercard comes on 4 - 800K
disks and includes a manual.  And I do think dealers ought to get a small
cut.  

As for on line services - would you really want to spend the time and money
to download over 3 Meg of stuff?

The same is true for MultiFinder.  It consumes more than a single 800K disk and
includes a manual.  That's why it's going to cost another $50.  

C'mon folks.  We get MacWrite, MacPaint, MacDraw, etc. upgrades for free,
endlessly.  I'm a Mac owner from the first 90 days; I paid $900 to go from
128K to 512K.  I paid $495 for a 400K external drive.   I figure that I had a
legitimate grip then, but grumbling over $50 for a four disk plus manual set
seems a bit much.

Jan Harrington, sysop
Scholastech Telecommunications
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