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- From: jtv@xs4all.nl (Jeroen T. Vermeulen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AT UK redundancies
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 96 14:53:38
- Organization: Leiden University, Mathematics & Computer Science, The Netherlands
- Message-ID: <19960119.7AF3410.D8B9@asd01-01.dial.xs4all.nl>
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- In article <EDAF75E1@cu-amiga.demon.co.uk> Mat Bettinson <mat@cu-amiga.demon.co.uk> writes:
- > Salutations Ruud for on the 17 Jan 96, verilly did you scribe;
- >
- > RD> The price difference of AT A1200's was, from the outset, pretty steep
- > RD> between Germany and the UK. A colleague of mine asked Gilles B. about
- > RD> this, and I believe the answer had something to do with high import
- > RD> taxes in the UK (or something, I'm not an economist).
- >
- > Are we not all in the EC? I thought there was no import tax.
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- AFAIK the only change was that buying for "personal use" was exempted.
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- Of course we all know a *real* programmer needs to buy a few spare A4000T's and
- monitors when he hops over to Bensheim for the weekend.
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- "I've been fishing, honestly!"
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- # Jeroen T. Vermeulen \"How are we doing kid?"/ Yes, we use Amigas. #
- #--- jtv@xs4all.nl ---\"Oh, same as always."/-- ... --#
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