🚀 go-pugleaf

Having been brought up a good little Protestant, I feel deeply ashamed of
this but I feel a G3 coming on... What the hell do I need one for? I
*don't*... But if, as an old retired fart, I do all this freelance work,
why not spend some of the money? My wife (brought up as a Catholic) says
"go on, buy it, why are you hanging about?"... Always marry Swiss Catholics
seems to be a good principle.

Enough excuses.

My film editor wants to get into sound processing with a computer. He's
thinking of 4-track, maybe 6-track, stuff. He's been thinking about a
PeeCee with sound cards and so forth but as we are working together on Avid
video editing kit which uses a Mac as the CPU, and this is the only kind of
computing he knows, he was saying why go for second best, why not get a
Mac?

If he wanted to edit and mix CD quality sound, what kind of kit would he
have to add to the Mac? What kind of sound card (presumably PCI)? Very
roughly what would it cost? He already has plenty of hi-fi kit, speakers
and amps, a recording mini-disk which is where he'd dump his results and a
Revox on which he has thousands of tracks...

Right now I'm using a 7500/100. When I started to muse about a G3 (we were
editing a sequence about Movietone's pioneering sync sound interviews with
G.B Shaw and Benito Mussolini at the time- it's priceless stuff) he
suddenly asked "Would you sell me your old machine?" The G3 was a kind of
pipe dream but he's brought it slightly to the boil. Selling him my Mac
would be fine. But how much? 

It's a 7500/100 with a 500Mb HD and 40Mb of RAM, 500k cache RAM. How much
would it be worth, system box only? I'm not trying to get the highest price
I can- I'd like to know what's fair. This is a good bloke, I work with him
a lot and want him to be happy. I'm advising him to put in a considerably
larger HD and I'd install sys 8 for him and I'd be his support line.

Any ideas?

-- 
Peter