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- From: HAAVARD JAKOBSEN <haa_jako@gih.no>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 14:30:24 +0200
- Organization: UNINETT news service
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- Nathanael J Henderson wrote:
- >
- > David Corn (dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com) wrote:
- >
- > : Suffice to say it's a LOT easier to pirate one 512k ROM and 6 880k
- > : floppies vs what - 24 or so 1.44M floppies...
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- Have you heard about tapestreamers? they cost about 100-200ukp.
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- > Surprisingly, pirated goods being distributed on CD aren't that rare.
- > :-) For the average 'pirate' (somebody that knows somebody with a copy,
- > or decides to get a copy off a public or work machine) copying off 24-odd
- > floppies is indeed much easier than trying to figure out how to read out
- > or clone ROMs, then figure out how to use them on another machine.
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- Here at campus everyone have win95, noone have actually bought it!
- (well, maybe one borrowed on cd and everybody borrowed or copied that cd
- to cd even) (bet microsoft would kill to go berserk here!!! :-) )
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- see ya!!
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