Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think!yale!cmcl2!phri!roy From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Wanted - reasonable Mac II Message-ID: <1990Mar11.055235.549@phri.nyu.edu> Date: 11 Mar 90 05:52:35 GMT References: <1990Mar7.162652.3110@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Sender: news@phri.nyu.edu (News System) Distribution: na Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York City Lines: 24 ls1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Leonard John Schultz) writes: > There is absolutely no way you could buy a new IIcx with 4 megs, 80MB hard > disk, monitor, videocard, and keyboard for $4000. At CMU, it almost costs > $4000 for the CPU alone!! I don't know what you are trying to pull, but > people aren't that stupid! Maybe not $4000, but certainly under $5000. If CMU is selling a bare cx CPU for $4000, they are ripping off their students. In New York, you can get a II-cx CPU (with 1 Meg) for $2850. From looking in the MacWeek ads, you can get a Quantum-80 for $700 and 4 Meg of ram for $250. Add a keyboard for $100 and you're up to $3900. You'll be hard pressed to get a monitor for $100, but you can probably swing one for $700 or so (not sure about color). If you are willing to compromise, you might be able to outfit a machine with a 40 meg drive for a couple $100 less, and maybe instead of 4 (really 5) meg of ram, settle for picking up 4 256k SIMMs real cheap for a total of 2 meg (not as good as 4, but still enough to run 2 or 3 typical applications under multifinder). I still don't see it comming in for $4000 with all you desire, but you should be able to do $4500 if you compromise a bit. -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy "My karma ran over my dogma"