Re: Apple iis for $200...good deal?

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Gina Saikin (gsaikin@primenet.com) wrote:

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: As was noted in a reply to your question, this is probably a Mac IIsi. 
: Check http://www.uce.com  to see if that's a fair price.  That's the 'blue
: book' site for computers.  Their prices are often used by many folks on
: what to ask for systems.  IMHO, that IS a good price for a IIsi, 68030
: processor, 30 mhz speed, and can have up to 65 megs ram.  This means that
: you can run the next to latest system software (7.6.1) on it, with enough
: RAM (rather cheap these days) you can run Netscape and so on...Yeah, I'd
: say it's a great price!

Actually a IIsi runs at 20 MHz. As to whether that is fast, I consider my 
33 MHz '030 Powerbook to be hideously slow running stuff like Netscape 3.0
and AOL 3.0. And on the price, There's a guy on AOL selling IIsi's by saying
you can get a superdrive for $40 and get a IIsi 5/40 for free with it. In
other words, he's selling the entire box for $40. That's a pretty decent
price considering that the parts are each worth about that much separately.
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