ajz@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (T. Tim Hsu) (10/30/90)
I'm having problems mailing this at the moment, so I'm posting this
instead even though it belong in e-mail. It's about the pricing of a
Mac Classic, so for those uninterested, read the next article.
I work part time (very part time right now) for a section of the
computing department that handles personal perchases. A student can get
a Mac Classic with the keyboard (most Macs are NOT sold with keyboards
these days), 1 Meg of RAM, and a 1.44 Meg floppy drive for $799.
However, this is a pretty useless machine by itself. You will really
need a hard drive since most useful programs these days are rather large
and since a useful system won't really fit on one disk. A seperate
hard drive will run about $300 for a 20 Meg and it goes up from there.
You could get a floppy drive, but it would cost you anywhere from $150
to $200, so for only a bit more you would get the greater versitility of
a hard drive.
The machine I recommend people is the Mac Classic with the keyboard,
2 Megs of RAM, a 1.44 Meg floppy drive, and a 40 Meg hard drive for
$1199. You really can't piece a machine starting from a base Classic
for much lower than this.
This is the standard university discount price that Apple gives, but
if Businessland will sell you a base model for $850 then they shouldn't
charge that much more for the model I just described.
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T. Tim Hsu UUCP ...pur-ee!ajz@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
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This is to a guy in Germany, and is being posted since my e-mail didn't seem
to get through.
The policy at my school (Purdue University) is that only students, faculty, and
staff can take advantage of the pricing discounts. In fact, only people in my
department are allowed to sign for those discounts. I personally have turned
people down because they are no longer students, I've made many people go back
to get their IDs, and if I'm unsure of a persons status (like when some guy
called from an alternate campus -- ie, Purdue Calumet) I send him off to one of
my superiors.
The school in Florida may be easier on you, but if you came here, I don't even
hand out order forms unless you agree to fill it out and produce an ID on the
spot.
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