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- From: thom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Thomas Clancy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The March Amiga?
- Date: 21 Jan 1996 09:15:39 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Message-ID: <4dt07r$1tv@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- References: <19960108.77A4120.F5EA@obscurity.pd.mcs.net> <4de7ue$du6@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <4dfuni$h1d@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <4dlvva$hp3@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <4dqjct$gul@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
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- On or about 20 Jan 1996 11:24:13 GMT, George Noel (gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) did proclaim:
- ( In article <4dlvva$hp3@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>,
- ( Byron Montgomerie <bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> wrote:
- ( >George Noel (gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:
-
- ( Thus you having to deal with shipping charges, adding to the price of
- ( that and then dealing with possible no warranties or no shops locally
- ( valuing those warranties.
-
- George. With shipping, you still save a bloody fortune. Let's do the
- math, shall we?
-
- $2k system in this province, with taxes, is $2400.
-
- Purchase the same system from any other province and you pay only
- shipping, plus 7%. So, ~ $2200 Now, this isn't even considering the
- fact that spending 2k on a machince frm outside the province will get
- you a far better beast that is, 16MB instead of 8, 1,7Gig instead of
- 750MB etc..
-
-
- ( I thought the same thing until I saw an A3000 using a VGA monitor and
- ( practically every piece of software ran on it, flicker free for most at
- ( that. Software ran from a a .MOD player to a terminal program to games
- ( to CanDo.
-
- That's cause a 3k outputs at ~31k. THe standard amiga output is 15.XXk.
-
- ( It got nothing to do with proprietary stuff at all.. it has lots to do
- ( with the clone business and once Amiga clones become a reality, then you
- ( will see prices dropping.
-
- "Amiga" clones will never see the light of day. You might see something
- that might have (once) been something remotely similar to an "Amiga".
-
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