Educational buyers even when Macs were selling for 2 grand, were getting Mac 128K's, and selling them to students for 1 grand. Sorry, I wasn't wealthy as a student - and most students aren't faring much better today. What's amazing is that while I'm focussing on the floppy plenty - only two other sites MacOSrumors , and Mackido , have even noticed this poigniant shotcomming which may be it's biggest achilies heel outside of the usual reasons that school kids are running away from the Mac in droves. Well, it didn't work for IBM then, and in light of old Time articles that coined it as IBM's first edisel - you're basically looking at Apple's NeXT Tucker. What's truely scary in all this is how the columnists and the pop-press are taking all this in.
Problem is - it's spreading like a virus again.
In this case Don Crabb has gone bozo nuts for the spec list and rumors that Intel is quaking in it's boots and some such nonsence. Funny how other sites that didn't get subjected to Steve's magical talents are finding the shortcommings in short order. I owned a damn NeXT - learn Unix or lump it. I guess that combined with forcing Gil out was worth it somehow. Just keep this in mind when Apple's liquidating it's assets from Steve retro carnage trail.