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Re: Thinking of buying a 5300 greyscale

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From: Roger Hart
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 00:00
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I've been extremely happy with mine.  24 MB RAM is a good choice.  Check
prices, since they have been selling for US$1100-$1200.

Roger

In article <af_chan-2006961641290001@mg1_23.lib.utas.edu.au>,
af_chan@postoffice.utas.edu.au (Anthony Chan) wrote:

> I'm thinking of buying a 5300mono.  (most likely with 24Mb of RAM).
> 
> Australian price would be about $3500.
> 
> I'ld like to hear peoples opinion on this machine and if they think it's a
> good buy.  I'm esp. concerned with all the negative press (rightly so from
> what I've heard) about the 5300 line.
> 
> Does it work well for you?  What do you use it for?  (I plan to mainly do
> word processing and play some games, maybe attached to an external colour
> monitor).
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Anthony
> 
> -- 
> Anthony Chan
> 
> e-mail address  af_chan@postoffice.utas.edu.au

-- 
Roger Hart
Department of the History of Science
Harvard University
rhart@fas.harvard.edu
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From: rhart@fas.harvard.edu (Roger Hart)
Subject: Re: Thinking of buying a 5300 greyscale
Date: 1996/06/20
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