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From: suhler@im4u.UUCP (Paul A. Suhler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac prices
Message-ID: <2225@im4u.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 18:14:35 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 15 18:14:35 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Oct-87 20:51:30 EDT
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Reply-To: suhler@im4u.UUCP (Paul A. Suhler)
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Organization: Univ of Texas Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept
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Summary: What's happening in Canada!?

In article <457@aucs.UUCP> paul@aucs.UUCP (Paul Steele) writes:
>[...]  Then I tell them how much an equivalent Macintosh
>system would cost.  A Mac SE with 20Meg hard disk lists at $6150.  Of
>course, they'll need a printer as well:  another $1045.  And they'll need
>a printer cable: another $50.  After adding tax, the final results are:
>
>           MAC SE:     $7970.
>           MAC Plus:   $7518.  (Inlude's Apple's HD20SC)
[...]
>comments on this matter.  Just for the record, I think a Mac SE should cost
>about $1800, with the hard disk version going for around $2500.  The printer
>is worth about $500.  If Apple would adopt such a pricing policy, I think

That's about what the SEs DO cost at UTexas.  The $7000 + prices
seem completely insane.  Are they being slapped with some massive
import tariff?

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac prices
Summary: What's happening in Canada?!
References: <457@aucs.UUCP>
Reply-To: suhler@im4u.UUCP (Paul A. Suhler)
Distribution: na
Organization: Univ of Texas Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept

In article <457@aucs.UUCP> paul@aucs.UUCP (Paul Steele) writes:
>           PC-clone:   $1650.
>           MAC SE:     $7970.
>           MAC Plus:   $7518.  (Inlude's Apple's HD20SC)
[...]
>comments on this matter.  Just for the record, I think a Mac SE should cost
>about $1800, with the hard disk version going for around $2500.  The printer
>is worth about $500.  If Apple would adopt such a pricing policy, I think

That's about what the SEs DO cost at UTexas.  The $7000 + prices
seem completely insane.  Are they being slapped with some massive
import tariff?




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Paul Suhler        suhler@im4u.UTEXAS.EDU	512-474-9517/471-3903