What's a personal computer (Re: Yet Another Killer Micro?)

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 1990 23:08

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> Uhhh, it isn't a microcomputer unless I can buy three of them for under
> $10,000, and still have money to put gas in the car. 

That's a good way of putting it. I like to say a personal computer should
cost no more than the down-payment on that car.
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Subject: What's a personal computer (Re: Yet Another Killer Micro?)
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