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- From: cbrown@armltd.co.uk (Chris Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Access 2 - Amiga Set-top Internet browser
- Date: 15 Mar 1996 13:13:06 -0000
- Organization: Advanced RISC Machines Limited
- Message-ID: <4ibqd2$9j9@valour.pem.cam.ac.uk>
- References: <4hp1sh$abu@lomond.icbl.hw.ac.uk> <4hsrof$nor@twizzler.callamer.com> <jragosta-1203961405500001@ppp-2018.dca.net>
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- In article <jragosta-1203961405500001@ppp-2018.dca.net>,
- Joe Ragosta <jragosta@dca.net> wrote:
-
- >
- >Heck, you could buy a PowerMac 6100 for $1000 with 8/500/CD/cache for
- >$1000. How is this 1/5 the cost?
-
- Whilst the current exchange rate is about 1.5 dollars to the pound,
- when dealing with computer equipment, the exchange rate seemd to be
- pretty much exacly 1:1. A device costing 200 pounds in the UK is most
- certainly likely to be 1/5th of the price of something costing $1000
- in the US.
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