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From: ccc_phil@waikato.ac.nz
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Subject: Re: Low-cost Mac
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Date: 19 Feb 90 01:54:37 GMT
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> Wrong, some of us on the Net are Mac+ users because Apple's stupid
> pricing policy for Europe means we can't afford anything else.

That's all we can afford down under, too (although I actually have a dual
floppy SE, WITH a 40 Meg hard disk AND 2.5 Meg of RAM -- one of the privileged
few).  A low cost Mac would do wonders for us in trying to stock labs of Macs
for students.

Philip Etheridge, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.