My Mac Plus and Imagewriter II cost more than my eMac. But that was 1986 and the Imagewriter II is still working as my tractor feed check printer. Wrote many a subcontract on that Mac Plus. My grandson used it for two more years.
I'll give you another price thought. The four sims to raise the Mac Plus to 4mb Ram cost over $800.00. The 19" black and white monitor cost $875. the video driver board cost 235.00.
That's not even thinking about the thousands spent on Software.
RHB
Chuck Stinnett writes:
Off topic, but thought you would enjoy (and some of you can identify with
this).
I ran across a written quotation from ComputerLand (remember them?), dated
December 18, 1989. It reads as follows:
Mac SE/30 4 MB, 80 MB: $6,569.00
LaserWriter II NT: $4,999.00
LaserWriter II Legal Cassette: $89.00
Phonenet Connectors (2 @ $39.50 ea): $79.00
Mac keyboard: $129.00
Apple Fax Modem W/ Cable: $729.00
Apple Tape Backup W/ Cable and Terminator: $1,579.00
Apple Scanner W/ Cable: $1,844.00
Subtotal: $16,017.00
(They did throw in a $4,486.00 "business adjustment," or discount, which
brought the adjusted subtotal down to $11,531.00. But then sales tax added
$576.55 � yes, the tax alone came with about $220 of a new 1Ghz eMac from
the Apple Store that would have more MB of RAM (128) than the SE/30 had MB
of hard disk space � bringing the final total to $12,107.55.)
That $1,800 scanner, incidentally, was a B&W scanner (but then, so was the
computer). And doncha know that Apple Fax Modem had to be a screamer � maybe
1200 baud but perhaps just 300.
ComputerLand also quoted us a Mac II cx system with 5 MB RAM and a 100 MB
drive that ran $8,464.00; the subtotal with other equipment was $20,660.00.
At the same time, we got a quote from another vendor who advised: "By the
way, you should get the 80 meg option as the new system and finder fully
loaded with fonts is very large, and with you doing more graphics oriented
functions you will be amazed at how quick you over-run a 40-meg drive. I
have a 140 meg here at home and am almost full now!!!"
Overrun a 40 meg drive? Mister, I scanned one photo at work today that came
in at 54.9 MB.
Anyway, these old quotes may have been expensive. But seeing them years
later is priceless.
-- Chuck
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