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ls1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Leonard John Schultz) writes:
> There is absolutely no way you could buy a new IIcx with 4 megs, 80MB hard
> disk, monitor, videocard, and keyboard for $4000.  At CMU, it almost costs
> $4000 for the CPU alone!!  I don't know what you are trying to pull, but
> people aren't that stupid!

	Maybe not $4000, but certainly under $5000.  If CMU is selling a bare
cx CPU for $4000, they are ripping off their students.  In New York, you can
get a II-cx CPU (with 1 Meg) for $2850.  From looking in the MacWeek ads, you
can get a Quantum-80 for $700 and 4 Meg of ram for $250.  Add a keyboard for
$100 and you're up to $3900.  You'll be hard pressed to get a monitor for
$100, but you can probably swing one for $700 or so (not sure about color).
If you are willing to compromise, you might be able to outfit a machine with
a 40 meg drive for a couple $100 less, and maybe instead of 4 (really 5) meg
of ram, settle for picking up 4 256k SIMMs real cheap for a total of 2 meg
(not as good as 4, but still enough to run 2 or 3 typical applications under
multifinder).  I still don't see it comming in for $4000 with all you desire,
but you should be able to do $4500 if you compromise a bit.

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