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In article <AGLEW.89Nov7130958@chant.urbana.mcd.mot.com> aglew@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Andy-Krazy-Glew) writes:
>What has happened is that better value is being provided, but also the
>amount of money people are willing to spend on computing has gone up.
>The system that bears the same relationship to the state of the art as
>the 4,000$ PC did a few years ago now costs at least 10,000$.
>
>The inexpensive "home computer" has been slightly lost in these developments.
>The Amiga, perhaps... but even the Amiga is running up the prices.

	Well, the Amiga 500 (the "home" machine) can be gotten for about
the same price as the original C-64 (tape drive - disk drive pushes it up).
The C-64 was introduced at $600 for the CPU unit alone.  The Amiga 500 includes
a disk drive as well.  Then again, selling at good performance/price levels
is Commodore's business.

	Of course, there's very little competition in that part of the market
nowadays.  Maybe we're ripe for another upswing (following the recent 
resurgence of video games) in the home computer market.

Disclaimer: I work for Commodore-Amiga, Inc.
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