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In article <1990Mar11.053102.23901@smsc.sony.com> dce@Sony.COM (David Elliott) writes:
>In article <gZyO4UK00Uh_A1K7Mw@andrew.cmu.edu> 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!
>
>I don't think the original poster meant that the whole deal was $4000 (if
>so, it's definitely too low), but your $4000 looks high to me.
>
>I have right here in my hands an ad for a IIcx with a 40MB hard disk
>and 2MB of RAM for $3795 (MacWorld, March 1990, page 284).  The next page
>has an ad for the same machine at $3869.

I think it should be pointed out that the cx in question was the cx with
4 megs and 80 meg hard drive.  The ads that David are quoting do sell the cx
with 2megs of ram and a 40 meg hard drive for $3795 and $3869 respectively,
but the same ads also advertise their cx with 4 megs of ram and 80 meg
hard drive for $4695 and $5089.  Even with educational discounts, $4000
for a cx with 4 and 80 would be the hard to find at campus dealers.

Now this is for the apple configuration with apple memory and apple hard
drive.  A bare bones cx with one meg of ram and no hard drive could be
had for less then $3000 dollars from discounters or from educational
dealers, and third party memory and third party hard drive added, but of
course you wouldn't getting real apple products:-).

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