Apple Computer Inc’s Macintosh Classic is proving too successful even for Apple’s good, the Wall Street Journal reports: demand for the cheapest Mac ever is so strong that Stamford University, which ordered 295 in September and has so far received only 12, while ComputerLand expects to receive at best 80% of its requirement by year-end; many other dealers have no stock and are howling that the dearth will wreck their fourth quarter business; Apple is making the thing in two shifts at its plant in Singapore and pulling out all the stops to increase supply and meet demand, and will go to three months next month and make it in Cork as well; the company is expected to sell 225,000 Classics this quarter but could have sold some 75,000 more.
