Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!occrsh!uokmax!rob From: rob@uokmax.UUCP (Robert K Shull) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Computer for the rest of us? Keywords: "the days when a 128K machine cost $2000 - 2500" Message-ID: <1804@uokmax.UUCP> Date: 26 Sep 88 15:35:30 GMT References: <430043@hpcea.CE.HP.COM> <11540170@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> <17578@apple.Apple.COM> <3082@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Reply-To: rob@uokmax.UUCP (Robert K Shull) Organization: University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK Lines: 19 In article <3082@pt.cs.cmu.edu> dtw@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Duane Williams) writes: >In article <17578@apple.Apple.COM>, Larry Rosenstein writes: >| In article <11540170@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David Williams) >| writes: >| Do you long for the days when a 128K machine cost $2000 - 2500? This is not >In 1984, I paid $1050 for a 128K Mac; so did lots of other people. I would I just paid $4000 for a color Mac II with 2 meg of memory, and another $1000 or so for a 100 meg drive. And yes, I too paid $1050 for a 128k Mac. And $400 for a single sided drive so I could use it. And another $400 or so for a printer. About $2000 total. So, compare what you got then for $2000 and what you get now for $5000. I'm still not convinced it's such a bad deal. >Do you regret posting yet, Larry? :-) Keep on postin' -- Robert K. Shull University of Oklahoma, Engineering Computer Network att!occrsh!uokmax!rob or sun!texsun!uokmax!rob