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Whoaaaa....we're supposed to be sellin' CAMERAS here!!!!


In article <5hhc34$bnd$1@europa.frii.com>, shack@deimos.frii.com says...
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>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
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>[snip]
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>>>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