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From: daveb@geac.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: More Mac prices
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Date: Thu, 5-Nov-87 09:46:52 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  5 09:46:52 1987
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Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Collier-Brown)
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In article <7084@prls.UUCP> gardner@prls.UUCP (Robert Gardner) writes:
>Oh, well, so much for "the rest of us". I've always felt that the real
>potential of the Mac was in "bringing computing to the masses" (a strange
>phrase). But if the masses can't afford it...

  On the other hand, a hardware-oriented friend (Ashok Patel)
characterized it as:
	1) 80% of what it should be for "the rest of us"
	2) A computer for yuppies.

  I tend to agree, especially to  #1.

 --dave (I'm saving my money for a Mac II: does this make me a yuppie?) c-b
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