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From: geb@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Gordon E. Banks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What should I do with a 128K Macintosh (MacProblem)
Message-ID: <877@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU>
Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 15:37:50 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 24 15:37:50 1987
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Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.
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In article <693@zycad.UUCP> kjb@zycad.UUCP (Kevin Buchs) writes:
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>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
>it, but I haven't heard from rom Apple since.  

And just what do you think Apple should have done:

A) Not sold the Mac until it could provide 512/1Meg memory cheaply enough
to make it in the marketplace?

B) Given you a free upgrade, each and every time they make a better
system?

C) Give you a free computer now?

I didn't buy my mac until the Mac Plus came out, because I recognized
the limitations of the small memory macs, even though I liked the concept 
a lot.  Now I would not go back to my IBM clones for anything.  Computer
hardware quickly becomes obsolete.  If you don't like this, you should
get an Apple II or CP/M or MSDOS machine and keep it for 10 years, not 
paying any attention to the latest hardware and software developments which 
won't run on your old machine.  It costs a lot of money to be on the leading 
edge of technology.