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- From: djhoward@ux7.cso.uiuc.edu (howard daniel joseph)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: No Surfers in NYC area till March!
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- Date: 12 Feb 1996 03:41:56 GMT
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- Wells Fargo Bank (wfblan@netcom.com) wrote:
- : PS. Oracles $500 Internet Computer is still being finished, and it has been
- : said that despite their making issue of the "$500" mark, their computer
- : will sell for over $500. How much more wasn't said. The A1200 Surfer
- : is in a beautiful place to get some market share. Need Fast RAM with
- : the machine as standard! Put 'at least' 1MB of Fast RAM on the computers
- : as standard. Especially if there are SIMM sockets. This will help the
- : system sell better with a double in performance and more flexibility with
- : more memory.
-
- I have the surfer pres release next to a TIME magazine article
- re: the $500 computer.
-
- These improvements you speak of -- let's see what the March Amiga
- offers! ;)
-
- Hopefully they can even manufacture it at a more cost-effective
- price, since they've had some choice in the design. (What was cheap for
- Commodore is not for AT, but hopefully AT can find some respectable
- cost-saving routes in it's technology! :)
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