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Re: Mac IIsi system for sale

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From: David Horton
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1993 23:58
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In article <1993Mar1.182340.15415@leland.Stanford.EDU> trump@leland.Stanford.EDU (Michael Jason Lewis) writes:
>In article <1993Mar1.162144.13611@news.media.mit.edu> bfbrown@media.mit.edu (Brian F. Brown) writes:
>>
>>First of all, those prices quoted above are college special prices;
>>go into your local computer store, where your average joe buys his computer,
>>and they are more.  But you may as well extend those prices with
>>prices for apple 14" monitor and extended keyboard, $550 and $120,
>>and extended keyboard to $1620 college price.  Add in $150 for FPU,
>>$10 for dust cover, and you've got $1780.  Now, tomcat goes to stanford, so
>>either he bought his computer at these good prices, or he
>>made a big mistake when he bought it.  I do agree that you would
>>be foolish to buy the computer system at this price, since it would
>>be just as easy to offer a student that amount to buy you  a brand
>>new IIsi system, making himself a handsome profit in the meantime.
>
>It should be pointed out that, at least at Stanford, this is illegal.  When you
>puurchase a computer at educational discount, you agree not to sell your 
>purchases for two years.
>
>Of course, with Macintosh hardware being as static as it is, you could buy a
>compuuter now and sell it in two years, secure in your knowledge that it would
>still be completely state of the art.
>
>- Mike Lewis
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have all been introduced since then, most in the last year.
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LC IIIs, Classic IIs, IIvxs,and PB145, PB180, and PB165 (color on a PB!)
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Subject: Re: Mac IIsi system for sale
Keywords: Mac IIsi Apple
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