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From: straka@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Straka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple vs the World
Message-ID: <4177@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: 29 Mar 88 14:18:44 GMT
References: <7778@apple.Apple.Com> <1017@aucs.UUCP>
Reply-To: straka@ihlpf.UUCP (55223-Straka,R.J.)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <1017@aucs.UUCP> peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele) writes:
|in article <7778@apple.Apple.Com|, kurt@Apple.COM (Kurt Hasel) says:
|| If you don't want to buy Apple I'm sure you can find a better
|| reason.
|I can think of a real good reason. Their machines are too expensive!

|they always end up buying a Hong Kong Special--a PC clone. I'll never
|understand why Apple doesn't introduce an affordable Mac. If the interest
|here is any indication, they'd sell like hot-cakes. It doesn't seem like

|in the best interest of every one else! I think this way would be as good
|a way to increase their market share as suing the world...

What would you take away from a Plus or SE to make a low-end Mac?  In what
ways would it have to be inferior to the above, yet still usable?

I think that the current used market for older Macs serves this low-end
market, IF IT DOES, INDEED, EXIST.  For example, a 512K or a 512KE satisfies
both of the above criteria.  Add a cheap HD  (and SCSI) to a 512KE, and you
have a relatively cheap setup.
-- 
Rich Straka     ihnp4!ihlpf!straka

Advice for the day: "MSDOS - just say no."