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- From: jac@cl.cam.ac.uk (John Carroll)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Ugrading a IIcx
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.115549.28420@cl.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 11:55:49 GMT
- References: <CKD.92Jul20190222@loiosh.eff.org> <1992Jul21.162149.15757@samba.oit.unc.edu> <2A6DF5DC.3437@ics.uci.edu> <150jinINNiob@smurf.smurf.sub.org>
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- Reply-To: jac@cl.cam.ac.uk (John Carroll)
- Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK
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- In article <150jinINNiob@smurf.smurf.sub.org> urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes:
- >In comp.sys.mac.hardware, article <2A6DF5DC.3437@ics.uci.edu>,
- > pcolline@ics.uci.edu (Phil Colline) writes:
- >< >800-227-3971) has been advertising a cx to Quadra upgrade for $2599, and a ci
- >< >to Quadra upgrade for $1999. I don't know how their upgrade differs from the
- >< >
- >< >Jeff Willner
- ><
- >< That ci upgrade is extremely expensive! UCI offers the upgrade for around $1000
- >< and it used to be even less at $899. The quadra upgrade right now is a rip-off
- >< but hopefully will come down in price sometime soon. Most stores should have
- >< an upgrade price near this amount.
- ><
- >Consider yourselves extremely lucky. The German price for the cx/ci->Q700
- >upgrade is on the order of $2500..$3000.
-
- Beat this... the UK Educational price for the quadra upgrade is the
- equivalent of more than $3400.
-
- John Carroll
-
- Cambridge University Computer Laboratory
-