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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
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