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From: philip@Kermit.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
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Subject: Re: Wanted - reasonable Mac II
Message-ID: <1990Mar12.000013.20299@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 12 Mar 90 00:00:13 GMT
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In article <1990Mar11.055235.549@phri.nyu.edu>, roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy
Smith) writes:

> 	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

Are we all talking about the same thing? $2850 is about right for the student
price of a bare 1M machine, but $4000 sounds about standard for a CPU+4M+80HD.

Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu