Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!bu.edu!bu-cs!lectroid!jjmhome!cpoint!alien
From: alien@cpoint.UUCP (Alien Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM vs. Mac - Long (was Re: Xerox s
Message-ID: <3328@cpoint.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jan 90 15:49:11 GMT
References: <89122400351638@masnet.uucp>
Reply-To: alien@cpoint.UUCP (Alien Wells)
Organization: Clearpoint Research Corp., Hopkinton Mass.
Lines: 26

In article <89122400351638@masnet.uucp> wayne.ho@f526.n250.z1.fidonet.org (wayne ho) writes:
>First of all what is BoCoEx (excuse me for my ignorance)?  ...

The BoCoEx is the Boston Computer Exchange - an independent brokerage outfit
which makes deals in used computers.  If you have used computer equipment that
you want to sell, you give them a ring and they list it.  Buyers call up and
tell what they want and what they are willing to pay.  BoCoEx makes the deal
happen and takes a cut.

To get to the original poster's comments, the used computer market is a lot 
like the used car market.  However, this does NOT mean that because A has a
higher used price than B that A is better than B UNLESS THE TWO ARE FUNGABLE.
Comparing Compaqs, ASTs and IBMs this was is reasonable, they are basically
plug replaceable.  Comparing Macs and IBMs is not.  If someone needs a Mac
they need a Mac, and they will be comparing the price (and determining value)
based on how much they save over buying new.  Thus, since a Mac is proprietary,
the price of a new Mac really does influence the price of a used Mac much more
than the price of competing used computer equipment.

As it is, my impression is that while used Mac equipment still sells at higher
prices than used PC equipment, that the used Macs depreciate faster (especially
used SEs).
-- 
--------|	Rest assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls
Alien   |   		would scarcely get your feet wet.	- Deteriorata
--------|     decvax!frog!cpoint!alien      bu-cs!mirror!frog!cpoint!alien