Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!ece-csc!ncsuvx!gatech!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!f.gp.cs.cmu.edu!dtw From: dtw@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Duane Williams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Computer for the rest of us? Keywords: "the days when a 128K machine cost $2000 - 2500" Message-ID: <3082@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 23 Sep 88 14:24:29 GMT References: <430043@hpcea.CE.HP.COM> <11540170@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> <17578@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: netnews@pt.cs.cmu.edu Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 23 In article <17578@apple.Apple.COM>, Larry Rosenstein writes: | (I probably will regret posting this, but here goes.) | | In article <11540170@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David Williams) | writes: | > | >I think the answer is that it died when Steve Jobs, Andy Hertzfeld, Burrell | >Smith, Guy Kawasaki all left Apple. | | Do you long for the days when a 128K machine cost $2000 - 2500? This is not | to disparage the efforts of those people, but simply to point out that all | was not perfect back in 1984. In 1984, I paid $1050 for a 128K Mac; so did lots of other people. I would bet that the majority of people who bought a Mac in 1984 got it for less than half the retail price. Do you regret posting yet, Larry? :-) -- uucp: ...!seismo!cmucspt!me.ri.cmu.edu!dtw arpa: dtw@cs.cmu.edu