🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <333b53f5.63349260@news.intrex.net>,  <antares@intrex.net> wrote:
>On Thu, 27 Mar 1997 10:11:55 -0600, Michael Hancock <JINX@Prodigy.net>
>wrote:
>
>>James C. Schell wrote:
>>> Mac IIfx  40Mhz '040

[snip]

>>WHOA!  Are my eyes deceiving me?  YIKES!  A 68k Macintosh for almost
>>$1,000?  $1200 gets you a 603e PowerMac with 16MBs memory and 1.2GB HD!
>>Let's be realistic here, System 8 is not even going to run on a 68k
>>machine, System 7.6 is the last version of the system to support 68k. 
>>Not to mention that the IIfx is the hardest to upgrade Mac because it
>>uses so many exotic parts, such as 68pin SIMMs.  You need to drop that
>>price if you are planning to sell it...
>
>That price on the PPC is without a monitor

That's the only thing you could find to point out up there? First off, 
everything I've heard indicates that systems through Sonata will still run 
on '040s. Of course, a IIfx doesn't qualify being a 40 mHz '030 and it is
said that newer systems don't like '040 accelerators. Second, it is a
complete system - monitors, ethernet cards, 64 pin (not 68 pin) memory,
keyboards, etc aren't free. Lastly, the only parts unique to IIfxes are the
SIMMs and the special black SCSI terminator. That said, I agree that $950 is
too high. Probably more in the $600s somewhere.
-- 
Randy Shackelford                                 
shack@frii.com