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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Should 64K ROMs be supported?
Message-ID: <5162@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Jan-87 15:33:56 EST
Article-I.D.: ism780c.5162
Posted: Wed Jan 14 15:33:56 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 15-Jan-87 22:07:12 EST
References: <476@runx.OZ> <1490@hoptoad.uucp> <907@ur-tut.UUCP> <4939@reed.UUCP> <581@runx.OZ>
Reply-To: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica, CA
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In article <581@runx.OZ>, clubmac@runx.OZ (Sydney University Macintosh Society) writes:
> In article <764@uwmacc.UUCP> dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) writes:
> >In article <531@runx.OZ>, baron@runx.OZ (Jason Haines) writes:
>>> I have yet to see one good reason why people with Macs are not
>>> getting the ROM/Drive upgrade.  Surely most Mac users want that
>>> extra power that the new ROMs and new 800K drive give them over
>>> the vanilla 512K.
>
>> Suppose you have a Mac, and would really like to upgrade but such mundane
>> things food, rent, clothes for the kids keep getting in the way.  People
>> actually find themselves in this situation.
>
> Now, are these same people going to have money to spend on a program you
> have written? I doubt it. If they don't have US$300 to spend on an upgrade
> they don't have money to spend on software.

Suppose one has a 512k Mac, and has managed to come up with $300 to spend.
If the choice is buy an upgrade, and have no money left for software, or
buy $300 worth of software, a lot of people will take the software.

Do you buy computers and upgrades because you want to have the biggest
system on the block, or do you buy them to get a job done?  If it is to
get a job done, then the instroduction of a new model does *not* make
the old model useless!
-- 
Religion: just say "no"

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