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Re: A letter to Dave Baggett

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From: Secret Mud
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 13:47
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From: aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys)
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>And your 486 cost about $1,500 more than the ST.  $1,500 more than
>some of us can afford or are willing to pay for a computer.
>

Oddly enough, $1500 CDN is *exactly* what a friend paid a couple weeks ago for
his 486-33 system.  That's including tax, and also including an SVGA monitor,
a 105 meg hard disk, 3.5 & 5 1/4" floppies, 4 meg of ram, 512k SVGA card,
etc...

The pricing for clones is getting rather scarey, isn't it?
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From: ron@zooid.guild.org (Secret Mud)
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Subject: Re: A letter to Dave Baggett
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