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From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
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Subject: Re: Minimal configuration (was Re: Computer for the rest of us?)
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Date: 3 Oct 88 16:22:16 GMT
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In article <10330043@eecs.nwu.edu> bob@eecs.nwu.edu (Bob Hablutzel) writes:
>>>To my mind, the minimal Macintosh is a Mac Plus with a single floppy. It
>>>just depends on what you want to use the Mac for. 
>>
>I'll stand by what I said. ...

Absolutely. Here (at the "unprosperous" end of the U.K ;-)...), a
Macintosh Plus is a luxury computer. Period. I tell people I have a
Mac Plus, and they go "wow". If you go into an AppleCentre and ask for
a Macintosh Plus, it will costs you something like (hum hum, exchange
rates, VAT, ...) $3000. *I* think that's a lot of money. I got mine
for L1000 sterling, through educational discount. That's twice the
price of a horrible Atari box, or 3 or 4 times an Amstrad PC?
   A Mac SE is Even More "Wow". The Mac II is a legend (well, *I*'ve
seen one, ...). You should see what our kids have to use in our schools
sometime. I was blown away by a 128K Mac back around '85. I'm still
pretty blown away by the Plus.
   I'm not complaining about the price of the Mac Plus - after all,
I'm an owner and glad I could stretch to it. But please, stop and
think once in a while how lucky you guys in the States are to be able
to consider the Plus to be less than minimal?
   Thank you and good night.

>Bob Hablutzel		BOB@NUACC.ACNS.NWU.EDU

	Nick.
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Nick Rothwell,	Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
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