Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>The first Mac, circa 1984, with no hard drive, 512K RAM, and the entire OS >could be contained on one 3.5" floppy disk. I believe it cost US$2,500! > >Joseph This is pretty much what I paid for my first Mac, an "SE," which I bought in '88 or '89. I later upgraded it to an SE30 and added some additional RAM. That brought the price up to somewhere between $3,000. and $3,500. USD. I have since bought two other Macs, and paid roughly the same price for them as I did for the "sooped up" (or should I say "souped up" on this list?) SE. I imagine the next Mac I buy will cost more or less the same. Is the a case of a company having determined what consumers are willing to pay for a product and sticking with that price or are there other, hopelessly complicated issues at work here that threaten to turn this into a major s***-kicking OT thread? Guy