berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu (11/26/87)
Do you really think that everybody who rushed out and bought the first
macs didn't expect the system to grow and evolve? Let's face it:
Apple screwed over the Lisa and early Mac owners. They had the choice
of either letting their machines become orphans, or paying exhorbitant
fees to upgrade... some Lisa owners paid 2-3 times. YOU might be able
to consider a $ 2000 payment amortized over 3 years, but that's a lot
more than I can afford to pay for microcomputer hardware, especially
when you don't get any tangible benefits, other than the ability to
run the software you were led to expect to get in the first place.
Mike Berger
Center for Advanced Study
University of Illinois
berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu
{ihnp4 | convex | pur-ee}!uiucuxc!clio!bergerrudolph@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu (11/28/87)
/* Written 10:12 am Nov 24, 1987 by suhler@im4u.UUCP in uiucdcsm:comp.sys.mac */ Does anyone know how long the original Macs have lasted before their failure rates start going up the far side of the bathtub curve? -- Paul Suhler suhler@im4u.UTEXAS.EDU 512-474-9517/471-3903 /* End of text from uiucdcsm:comp.sys.mac */ I got my 128K Mac in July of '84, as soon as my university got them in. It's gone through about 2 years of heavy use and 1 1/2 years of light use (with the heavy and light years interspersed). So far I haven't had a single hardware problem. I did have it upgraded to 512K in August of this year.