Re: A letter to Dave Baggett

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From: SML108
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:18

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In article <725809675.24154@zooid.guild.org>, ron@zooid.guild.org (Secret Mud)
says:
>
>From: aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys)
>>
>>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?

And right here in America, US $899 will buy you a 20Mhz 486SX, 2 MB memory
SVGA monitor, 85 MByte hard drive from chain store Montgomery Ward...

Today's magic atari password is "tick, tick, tick..."

Scott

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