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From: palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu (David Palmer)
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Subject: Re: Apple price increases
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Date: 13 Sep 88 21:57:14 GMT
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Apple University Consortium prices (at least at CalTech) do not rise
until October 6, so I still have an opportunity to buy at the
old prices.  The information I have has the keyboard, video card,
and monitor staying the same price (assuming that All of the price
changes were transmitted to the purchasing agents), while the price
of a 1 Meg MacII cpu box goes up by $640, leap-frogging the old
street price.  (A rise of ~25%)  The AUC price of 1 Meg of memory,
from Apple, is now $329, so we can assume from the price
differential that the previous price of memory was about 310 dollars
below zero :-).

If I give in to terrorism and am panicked into buying at the old price,
I will consider a third-party video system.  I prefer acreage to color,
so I would probably buy a 1kx1k grey-scale or monochrome system instead
of an equally-priced 640x480 color system.  Does anyone have any suggestions
or warnings about specific monitors and video cards?

		David Palmer
		palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu
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