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From: ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Apple upgrade policies
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Date: 11 Feb 89 02:31:52 GMT
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In article <690@wpi.WPI.EDU> tron@wpi.wpi.edu (Richard G Brewer) writes:
>... Apple has been more than nice to us, the
>early apple// and Macintosh owners. You don't see IBM offering PS/2 boards to
>people who bought the PC-XT-AT systems, do you? Apple could have saved
>themselves some major bucks by just saying, "screw 'em," and not offering //e
>-> gs boards, and 128->512KE->MacPlus and SE->SE/30 board swaps (these swaps
>have to be DESIGNED, remember, and that takes time, and time is money).
Apple doing the upgrades just makes good business sense.
I read yesterday (in 'The Journey is the Reward', Steve Young's story about
Steve Jobs - made ME wish I grew up in the Valley) that Apple even offered
an upgrade from the Apple I ($666.66) to the Apple II ($1295 with 4K, as
I recall.)  Anyone remember what the upgrade might have cost?

Dream-machine-of-the-month: The Apple IV, so named because of 4 33Mhz 65832's
running various parts the show. (with caches, you shouldn't need too much 30
ns memory, say only 128K to start with. [one with the current bank's 
instructions and/or data, and one that starts geting filled the next bank's 
data as it is needed.)
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