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From: Jerry.Hewett%cod@nosc.ARPA,San.Diego.CA%cod@nosc.ARPA
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Subject: Re: Macintosh -- The Computer for the Rich of Us
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Date: Sat, 29-Sep-84 14:23:30 EDT
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Msg #175 Sun Sep 30 10:26 1984 [33] 
Subj: Re: MacYap via uucp
To: Morgan Davis
From: Jerry Hewett
My two cents.

I agree with the first dude. Apple screwed us.

If they would have left the 128K price at $2495 for at least another six
months or so, and charged $3495 for the 512K Mac, I wouldn't have felt reamed.
Instead, they punish the people who had faith in the Mac by cutting them off
at the knees just over six months later.  A slap in the face, no matter how
you look at it.

It would have been a different story if I had purchased the Mac back in Feb.
with three or four *good* stand-alone language development systems, a good
word processor, a good spreadsheet, a good etc., etc., etc., and had six
months to develop software or at least be able to effectively use the machine.

Instead I have had a cute paperweight on my desk for the past six months that
still doesn't have a decent development system for it (you gotta buy that
piece of shit Lisa for $5000+) or any other decent business packages that can
be used to defray the $2500 layout.  I - and many other Mac owners - have
been royally shafted by Mr. Jobs, and I'm sure as hell not happy about it.

In all probability my Mac will remain a useless paperweight.  I'm sure as hell
not going to dump $1000 for the 512K upgrade ("but you get free software!".
Screw the free software.  Give me a discount on the upgrade, instead), and,
now that the 512K machine is here, there sure as hell ain't gonna be any 
decent software running on the 128K Mac.

I feel like a fool for wasting $3300+ for this thing.  The money would have
been better spent on a hard drive and other attachments.

Or better utilized by putting into a T-bill or something and waiting for
a year or two until the 512K machine became reasonably priced, with some 
decent software available.