douglas@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Douglas Mason) (03/08/90)
I would like to purchase a used Macintosh II system. It must have color and I would prefer 4 megs of ram and an 80meg drive although variations of the above (more, less) could be acceptable. Since I am a student, the rate seems to be about $4000 for a IIcx with the student discounts. Please keep this in mind and price accordingly. That price would be with the 4meg ram 80meg HD. -Douglas Mason -- Douglas T. Mason | douglas@ddsw1.UUCP or dtmason@m-net |
ls1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Leonard John Schultz) (03/11/90)
>I would like to purchase a used Macintosh II system. It must have color and >I would prefer 4 megs of ram and an 80meg drive although variations of the >above (more, less) could be acceptable. > >Since I am a student, the rate seems to be about $4000 for a IIcx with the >student discounts. Please keep this in mind and price accordingly. That >price would be with the 4meg ram 80meg HD. > > >-Douglas Mason 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! Len Schultz
dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott) (03/11/90)
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. -- David Elliott dce@smsc.sony.com | ...!{uunet,mips}!sonyusa!dce (408)944-4073 "...it becomes natural, like a third sense." -- Homer Simpson
roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) (03/11/90)
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. -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy "My karma ran over my dogma"
siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel) (03/12/90)
In article <1990Mar11.055235.549@phri.nyu.edu> roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes: > > 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 No reason they should stop now! :-) R. (formerly of CMU) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rich Siegel Staff Software Developer Symantec Corporation, Language Products Group Internet: siegel@endor.harvard.edu UUCP: ..harvard!endor!siegel "When someone who makes four hundred and fifty dollars an hour wants to tell you something for free, it's a good idea to listen." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
philip@Kermit.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) (03/12/90)
In article <1990Mar11.055235.549@phri.nyu.edu>, roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes: > 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 Are we all talking about the same thing? $2850 is about right for the student price of a bare 1M machine, but $4000 sounds about standard for a CPU+4M+80HD. Philip Machanick philip@pescadero.stanford.edu
ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff) (03/13/90)
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!! Well, here's my two bits worth to fuel the fire. This is what we pay at SUNY Oswego - if someone knows where to get it cheaper, let me know since I'm thinking about getting one.... Mac IIcx CPU..............$2988.00 Mac IIcx/HD40.............$3436.00 Mac IIcx/HD80/4MB.........$4524.00 Ext Keyboard...............$160.30 Video Card.................$349.30 Mono Monitor...............$279.30 Color Monitor..............$699.30 Based on this, using non-Apple RAM and disk, I'd say you could come close to $4000 for a 1MB/40MB Monochrome IIcx system, but a 4MB/80MB color system would be over $5000.... --- Boyd Ostroff - Tech Director - Dept of Theatre - SUNY Oswego -- --- The CallBoard System - (315) 947-6414 1200/2400 baud -- --- !rochester!kodak!gizzmo!cboard!ostroff -- --- ostroff@oswego.oswego.edu --
chungs@sun.acs.udel.edu (Sung Chung) (03/13/90)
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:-). ____ Sung Chung chungs@vax1.acs.udel.edu *Stand Disclaimer: Sometimes, I don't even represent myself.