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Here's Andy Hertzfeld's view of how the Mac pricing evolved: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Price_Fight.txt http://www.folklore.o

• mapgrep 8y ago
  I had no idea that a $50 cost overrun on a disk drive pushed them up $500 to $1995! Not sure I agree with the logic there. Then it seems to have been one bad executive call from there to $2495 (thanks, Sculley). So you could argue (it's a stretch!) that the $50 drive price increase ended up driving the price up $1000.
  • joezydeco 8y ago
    Well, read that sentence again... "When combined with a few other recent splurges, it pushed us over the top, so we grudgingly accepted that the Macintosh would have to debut for $1995." What those other "splurges" are is unclear.