Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]i guess i am a little older. my first mac was the original 1984 8MHz model, 128K ram, 800K floppy and imagewriter, purchased under the apple university consortium (via columbia). i think it was something like $2,500. this was when i was a grad student; generally the most practical thing it was useful for was dialing up the university dec-20's with a 1200 baud modem connected to the serial input. compiling was impractical; i recall you really needed a Lisa II to cross-develop for the mac (in pascal). this relic is sitting in my basement... last time i tried, it booted up just fine. our latest mac is the wife's 600MHz ibook--a sweet little thing. - -rei > From: Guy Bennett <gbennett@lainet.com> > > >I dont;l even see how a financially average student can rationalize a $1500 > >camera and $1000 lenses next to the Nikon at 1/2 the camera body and 1/3 the > >lens prices.... > >Frank Filippone > > > I know plenty of students who begged, borrowed, stole, and/or took out > student loans to buy discounted Macs (which even with student discounts > costs thousands of dollars) from their university computer store, rather > than pick up less expensive PCs. And this to do basic word processing and > spread sheet stuff for which a decent PC would have been more than adequate. > > Guy (who bought his first Mac [an SE] with a dot-matrix printer for about > $3000. in 1988, while still a starving student) - -- Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html