Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!Jerry.Hewett%cod@nosc.ARPA,San.Diego.CA%cod@nosc.ARPA From: Jerry.Hewett%cod@nosc.ARPA,San.Diego.CA%cod@nosc.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro.apple Subject: Re: Macintosh -- The Computer for the Rich of Us Message-ID: <12552@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Sat, 29-Sep-84 14:23:30 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12552 Posted: Sat Sep 29 14:23:30 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Oct-84 05:37:45 EDT Lines: 37 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.