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From: twakeman@hpcea.CE.HP.COM (Teriann Wakeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Minimal configuration (was Re: Computer for the rest of us?)
Message-ID: <430046@hpcea.CE.HP.COM>
Date: 26 Sep 88 22:50:47 GMT
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Organization: HP Corporate Engineering - Palo Alto, CA
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>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 thet all
>was not perfect back in 1984.

Larry, No I long for the days when a state of the art Macintosh can be had
for under $3000.

If you look at the press release, part of the rational given
for the price increase is a high demand for the Mac. Apple is also known 
for having one of the biggest cash reserves in the business. Independent
 estimates for materials and manufacturing  costs of a Mac made by multiple
 publications have indicated that there is a LOT of profit built into the
 old prices.  

I would dearly love to be able to run on a system that others consider a
 minimum system.  I upgraded to 1 Meg to be able to run Hypercard.

I am an operating system addict who has just been told by my connection
that the price of a new fix is more then I can Pay. Of course I'm going to
stamp my feet and cry out. I haven't had a state of the art Mac since the
 fat Mac came out. But at least over time I had been able afford to upgrade
 to the minimal current Mac. Oh well, maybe when a 68030 box is the minimum
current configuration....

TeriAnn