Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!lll-winken!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!hubcap!jcocon%hazel.cs.clemson.edu From: jcocon%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (James C O'Connor III, 2846) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mac IIv - inexpensive Mac II box Message-ID: <5102@hubcap.clemson.edu> Date: 13 Apr 89 11:48:21 GMT References: Sender: news@hubcap.clemson.edu Reply-To: jcocon%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu Lines: 20 > still sell, completely trashing your idea that they would be outdated) > Maybe do both, calling the upgraded IIv a IIv 020 (aka the SE 030). > Heck, we could continue this and sell a IIv 030, which would still be > cheaper because it lacks a coprocessor, MMU, and FDHD drive. > > Also, from the demo given at the IIcx's introduction, board swaps to > upgrade the machine should be VERY easy. > > paul > -- Kind of hard to have a 68030 without an MMU, since it is built into the chip. 68882's at 16MHz are available to the public at round $250. You have to know that Apple gets better prices than that. FDHD shouldn't cost to much more than the normal drive. It wouldn't be so profitable to market a machine that cost Apple almost as much as a IIcx but not be able to charge so much for it. Also, I understand that Apple gets their 030's at '020 prices through a special deal with Motorola. Warning - everything after the second line is pure supposition.