From: bell-peter@yale.edu (Peter Bell) Subject: Re: LCIII or used IIci - which should I get? Organization: Yale University Science & Engineering UNIX(tm), New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Lines: 39 Distribution: na NNTP-Posting-Host: minerva.cis.yale.edu In article stricher@masig3.ocean.fsu.edu (Char Aznabul) writes: >In article <1993Apr24.232542.6070@cheshire.oxy.edu> erik@cheshire.oxy.edu >(Erik Adams) writes: >+ I am looking at a new LC III and a used IIci. Prices > >+ The IIci has much greater potential for expansion, a la NuBus and >+ greater memory capacity. >Depends on the price you can get the ci for. Educationally speaking, >the 4/80 [?] LCIII here at FSU can be had at just under $1300. Add >in roughly $500 for a monitor. Last I'd heard, an 8mb LCIII simm >went for ~$250. > >I think you're in a win-win situation. No matter what you decide, >you'll most likely be happy with it. > >James Yes, and one thing to think about is the pricing on the 160M harddrive configuration. When I got my lowly classic II, the options were 40 or 80M harddrives, and it was clear that buying another 40M of harddrive space would cost *much* more than the difference in price between the two config- uartions. There is an analogous break in the LCIII/80 and 160 prices, and you will not regret spending the extra money for a larger harddrive. Particularly if you ever wind up wanting to use SoftPC, which sets up a several-MB (up to 30!) partition, or if you are generating large files with DTP software, or if you might ever want to check out a mac unix-like os, like MachTen, having the extra space will be helpful. when you are pricing used IIci's, look at the harddrive size they come with, and how much it would cost you to add more storage down the road... (Might be a useful bargaining strategy even if you see no reason to go over 80M, though I must admit that I am such a packrat that within 6 months of getting my computer, I was backing up a lot of stuff to floppies that I rarely use to because I was running out of space, without having started using DTP stuff, softPC or trying any unix os!) -Peter bell@minerva.cis.yale.edu