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  2. From: LCADAMZ1@ulkyvm.louisville.edu (Lamont Adams)
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  4. Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes - Intelligent People)
  5. Date: Sun, 25 Feb 96 09:56:56 EST
  6. Organization: University of Louisville
  7. Message-ID: <177388BEAS85.LCADAMZ1@ulkyvm.louisville.edu>
  8. References: <4ef48q$rik@news.iag.net> <Supersede.Dn3sy8.CsG@iquest.net> <312B0660.63F3@mts.se> <4ghi50$2ud@hp01.redwood.nl> <4gnp0l$n86@thetics.europa.com> <312F71AE.12C9@phidias.colorado.edu>
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  10.  
  11. In article <312F71AE.12C9@phidias.colorado.edu>
  12. Erik Johnson <erik@phidias.colorado.edu> writes:
  13.  
  14. >Hmm, what increased cost are you referring to?  Original XT's cost more than
  15. >$5000.  Don't mistake increased hardware requirements with increased cost.
  16. >The first 486 I bought cost $3200 with a 250meg hd, 1meg video, 8meg of ram,
  17. >14" monitor.  The same money will today buy a pentium with gig+ hd, 16+ meg
  18. >of ram, 2+ meg 32 bit video card.  Quite a bargain in my book.
  19.  
  20. Yes, but you have already blown that $3200 on the 486. Probably invested
  21. some more cash in upgrades for it (.. It's ONLY 4 years old!! it CAN'T be
  22. outdated yet! :) ) And now you are going to put another $3200 into a machine
  23. that runs the "software of today" worse, comparatively, than the "Hardware of
  24. Yesterday" ran the "software of yesterday"? And what are you going to hock
  25. to be able to afford todo this, anyway??  :-)
  26.