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Article #17540Re: ST peripherals - UK versus US
From: William Magro
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1991 02:13
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1991 02:13
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In article <1185@exua.exeter.ac.uk>, SAMcinty@exua.exeter.ac.uk (Scott McIntyre) writes: |> I recently purchased a STE from a company here in the UK, but |> have also noticed that the going price for my system in the States |> is about half as much.... |> |> The main damage is done, but I am going to be in the market for |> hard drives, printers, etc, and the more I look at the prices here, |> the more flummoxed I get! |> |> The typical 24 pin printer is about #259 (give or take a bit) which |> translates to nearly $475!!!!!!! Seems outrageous...especially |> the hard drives, going price for 40megs is #350, which is nearly |> $700 US! Wow! Those prices are outrageous! A 100 meg drive can be had for $399 these days if you look around (that's a bare drive). I sort of remember looking through a UK ST mag and getting excited at the low prices and all the support. Are we thinking of the same UK??? --Bill Magro
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!wuarchive!m.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!firenze!wmagro From: wmagro@firenze.uiuc.edu (William Magro) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: ST peripherals - UK versus US Message-ID: <1991Mar5.021312.4059@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 5 Mar 91 02:13:12 GMT References: <1185@exua.exeter.ac.uk> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Reply-To: wmagro@firenze.physics.uiuc.edu (William Magro) Organization: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Lines: 22