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- From: enger@arco7.cc.bbsrc.ac.uk (john enger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The March Amiga?
- Date: 5 Jan 1996 15:26:52 GMT
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- James McArthur (jamesm@turtle.apana.org.au) wrote:
- : Eric Szulczewski (ejszul@obscurity.pd.mcs.net) wrote:
-
- : : So why not a pizza box?
-
- : Because low end systems are supposed to be cheap.. add the box, a few
- : connectors, some more ships, and the price goes up, up, up, and the
- : marketing types say "No! Its too expensive, no-one will buy that.."
-
- You can buy a PC mini-tower *with* 200W PSU for 35UKP. The same money will
- get you a 25W Amiga PSU and no case. Keyboards cost 10UKP
-
- A good plan would be to put the new machines of whatever spec into
- minitower cases and spray them a nice deep metallic blue. Then all the
- options like more/bigger HD's, CD-ROM's, Tape drives etc. will cost the
- same as the PC counterparts, as they will all be standard bits...
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