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From: chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Is the Mac 512 still a semi-viable system?
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Date: 15 Dec 89 17:13:26 GMT
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In article <9298@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) writes:
> It will never be
> cheaper to buy a new computer than to keep an old one, unless the old
> one is obsolete.

Isn't this a truism?  And isn't the thrust of some of the argument that 
the Plus is pretty darned close to being obsolete?

A large part of the answer to the question, I think, has to come from what 
you mean by things like "viable" and "obsolete."  The Plus will always be 
able to run System 6.x, and applications that will run in one megabyte or 
less under System 6.x, so yeah, the Plus will be around for an 
indeterminate amount of time equal to however long the users find that 
combination (Plus, System 6.x, their favorite apps) useful.

As for how long Apple Computer, Inc. will continue to manufacture the Plus and continue upgrading its System Software, that's anybody's guess.

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