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From: suhler@im4u.UUCP (Paul A. Suhler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What should I do with a 128K Macintosh (MacProblem)
Message-ID: <2431@im4u.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 11:12:25 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 24 11:12:25 1987
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Summary: Consider it money well spent and upgrade

In article <693@zycad.UUCP> kjb@zycad.UUCP (Kevin Buchs) writes:
>So here I am sitting at home with a 128K mac which I paid over $2000 for.  I
>does not run any software and I don't use it.  It was great when I bought

If you paid that much for it, I assume that you've had it for at
least three years.  Consider that money to be mostly amortized
and go ahead and upgrade.  I started with a 128k Mac in Feb 85
and have had it upgraded to a 512k and later to a Plus.  It beats
doing without for those years and then starting with an SE.  I
consider it money well spent; I'm now considering a 2Meg upgrade.

It can still do what it did in the beginning; don't blame Apple
if you now want it to do things it couldn't do then.

On the other hand, if buying a new Plus or SE isn't that much more
than the Plus upgrade, you might do that, since you'll get a new
machine with a presumably longer lifetime ahead of it.

Does anyone know how long the original Macs have lasted before their
failure rates start going up the far side of the bathtub curve?
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Paul Suhler        suhler@im4u.UTEXAS.EDU	512-474-9517/471-3903