Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mcnc!unccvax!cbenda From: cbenda@unccvax.UUCP (carl m benda) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Macintosh II not Macintosh ][ Message-ID: <767@unccvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 18:54:26 EDT Article-I.D.: unccvax.767 Posted: Thu Jul 16 18:54:26 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 13:39:34 EDT References: <1051@apple.UUCP> <336@swanee.OZ> <4131@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <341@swanee.OZ> Organization: Univ. of NC at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC Lines: 42 Keywords: stupid posting by me, GARBAGE, JUNK Summary: new car for 2989?? Subject: Re: Macintosh II not Macintosh ][ Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Keywords: stupid posting by me, GARBAGE, JUNK Summary: new car for 2989??? References: <1051@apple.UUCP> <336@swanee.OZ> <4131@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <341@swanee.OZ> In article <341@swanee.OZ>, gustav@swanee.OZ (Gustav) writes: > In article <4131@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>, jamin@thoth15.BERKELEY.EDU writes: > > In article <336@swanee.OZ> gustav@swanee.OZ (Gustav) writes: > > > > > >Mac ][ possibly will be the first affordable > > > > Did you say affordable? Pardon me, just curious. > > Well, affordability, like beauty is all in the eye of beholder. Sure, > I wish Mac ][ was cheaper, and so would everybody else, yet if a > machine capable of running full UNIX V with all sort of extras and > full 32 bit architecture costs as much as, say, a new medium range car, Gee I didn't know that you could get a new car for 2989.00... That is what it would cost for this brand new 32 bit 16Mhz ALR system with 1 meg of 80 ns ram... witness: ALR 80386 16Mhz AT compatible 1990.00 Miniscribe 44 Meg 28ms Hard Dr. 500.00 Display and Adapter 200.00 Microport System V AT 199.00 total for a 1meg ram 44meg hard drive UNIX 2989.00 You can't even put a softwareless MAC II on your desk for that price.. Let alone the extra MMU you'd need to buy for the MAC II to let it run AUX.. If you like UNIX but hate spending money.. look to 80286 implementations they are about 1000.00 dollars cheaper than 2989.00. /Carl mcnc!unccvax!cbenda