Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!udccvax1!sun.acs.udel.edu!chungs From: chungs@sun.acs.udel.edu (Sung Chung) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Wanted - reasonable Mac II Message-ID: <9029@sun.acs.udel.edu> Date: 13 Mar 90 03:15:11 GMT References: <1990Mar7.162652.3110@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <1990Mar11.053102.23901@smsc.sony.com> Reply-To: chungs@sun.acs.udel.edu (Sung Chung) Distribution: na Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 32 In article <1990Mar11.053102.23901@smsc.sony.com> dce@Sony.COM (David Elliott) writes: >In article 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! > >I don't think the original poster meant that the whole deal was $4000 (if >so, it's definitely too low), but your $4000 looks high to me. > >I have right here in my hands an ad for a IIcx with a 40MB hard disk >and 2MB of RAM for $3795 (MacWorld, March 1990, page 284). The next page >has an ad for the same machine at $3869. I think it should be pointed out that the cx in question was the cx with 4 megs and 80 meg hard drive. The ads that David are quoting do sell the cx with 2megs of ram and a 40 meg hard drive for $3795 and $3869 respectively, but the same ads also advertise their cx with 4 megs of ram and 80 meg hard drive for $4695 and $5089. Even with educational discounts, $4000 for a cx with 4 and 80 would be the hard to find at campus dealers. Now this is for the apple configuration with apple memory and apple hard drive. A bare bones cx with one meg of ram and no hard drive could be had for less then $3000 dollars from discounters or from educational dealers, and third party memory and third party hard drive added, but of course you wouldn't getting real apple products:-). ____ Sung Chung chungs@vax1.acs.udel.edu *Stand Disclaimer: Sometimes, I don't even represent myself.