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Hey, it's a bargain! Compare to:
Processor: 8MHz 16/24/32bit hybrid
RAM: 128KB - soldering iron upgrade to 512KB
HD: n/a
Video: 9" B&W 512x384. Direct memory mapped. CPU as GPU.
Floppy: Single internal 400KB, expansion port for external though they're not available.
Modem: No.
LAN: No.
Ports: 2x serial (230Kb/s potential, but initally used for impact printer & modem)
Keyboard: Yes. Numeric keypad extra.
Mouse: Yes. One button.
OS: (Big name for a bunch of traps) Finder 1.0g (? it's been a while)
All for $2495 in 1984 dollars.
Development system: Another $10K, and don't ask.
Jobs gave 50% discounts via Own-a-Mac but gross margins were quite different in those days.
And yes, we walked 10miles barefoot to school each day.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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