🚀 go-pugleaf

> BTW, check out misc.forsale.computers for used hard drive prices.  I
> bought a 50M Quantum for $80 a few months ago...

Hmm...Is that really a message are on the Net?  I'll go chack after this
session, but I dunno if BSU subscribes to that particular message base.  After
the $80, I'd still have get case/LINK, no?

>> I believe someone said something about that being a beta copy, or unliscenced
>> or something.  Of course pirating is not so unfamiliar to many clone users.
> 
> How exactly does one pirate a CD-ROM?  650M hard drives aren't exactly
> cheap...  ;-)
                                        
C'mon!  OS/2 isn't 650megabytes long!  Is it?  Even so, I've seen one of my
friends walking around with MS-DOS 5.0  (I think it was)  on a fist-full
of 720k floppies--they're cheap ya know.

>> Anywho, it sounds like you're on the right track.  Buy what you need.  Use
>> will-power.  Buy only what you need.  The clone-realm is prone to draw a man to
>> gadget hell.  Look at them, look at what Atari can do, look at what MAC can do.  
>> Good luck!
> 
> Precisely why I'm trying to collect as much info as possible...  I
> figure I'm pretty immune to the clone sales droids, but my fiancee's
> father isn't...

Heheh....Well, good luck to him too!

				-Matt

P.S. I get a chuckle every time I read "sales _droids_"....heheh.