Re: A2 dream machines on-line!

[sheldon@atlcom.net (Sheldon Simms)]

In article <36949CF8.5A284356@student.uu.se>, Ronny Svedman
<rosv4119@student.uu.se> wrote:

> > Louis Cornelio <cornelio@crl.com> wrote:
> > 
> > : Remember those amazing Apple Dream machines, circa 1988?
> > : Remember 1988 prices? I have transcibed a few of them from A+ magazine
> > : for your pleasure.
> > 
> > : They can be viewed at http://www.crl.com/~cornelio/a2/dream.html
> > 
> Coolness!
> 
> Those prices make you think... ;-)
> 
> But what aboput the Robo BitStik and CAD prices??
> 
> On a company where i have worked they used to do CAD on an apple IIe
> with 128 K ram, duodisk drives, robo bitStik 2 and an epson flatbed
> plotter.. all summig up to a good $30000 according to the manager.. but
> this must have been earlier, maybe around 1983-84 when the IIe model was

Well the IIe wouldn't have been *that* much more expensive. The main
expense in this setup is the plotter, which could have been $20000 easily.

As for the setups on Louis' page the only really useful and amazingly
overpriced (by today's standards) is RAM. The 6Mb RAM-GS for > $6000
was pretty spectacular. Other than that the prices were driven up by
questionable items and Apple branded products.

For example, >$4000 for an "industrial VCR".. why?

An RGB and Composite monitor for the IIgs setup? (Even if you have a reason
 for both (?) it's still dumb to pay for an Apple composite monitor)

>$1000 for an Apple 20Meg hard drive? Any sane person would have bought a
 Sider.

Why do you need 2 3.5 and 2 5.25 inch floppy drives when you have a hard
drive?

What's a "KroyKolor Plus"?

Apple Personal Modem with SSC on the IIgs education setup? Why do we need
an SSC? Why are we dumb enough to pay for an Apple personal modem?

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