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Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Bernd "Bernie" Meyer
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 21:39
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adt@netcom.com (Anthony D. Tribelli) writes:

>Bernd "Bernie" Meyer (root@wombat.hanse.de) wrote:
>: ... and NT
>: carries a price tag that is not encouraging for home use.

>Street-priced for WinNT3.51 at a Los Angeles computer swapmeet: US$135. 
>Coincidentally, the same as the academic price :-).

a) That _is_ extremely unattractive to me. For $135, I can get another 4 Megs
   of RAM, or a quad speed CD-Rom, or (almost) an 850M harddisk, or the
   keyboard of my dreams

b) Try to upgrade or even register that thing.

Bernie
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From: root@wombat.hanse.de (Bernd "Bernie" Meyer)
Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Organization: Private uucp site lost in the voids of the black hole Germany is in the Internet
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 21:39:55 GMT