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- From: Gemini2@cup.portal.com (Gary Alan Peake)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!
- Date: 2 Apr 1996 20:20:22 -0800
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Sender: pccop@unix.portal.com
- Message-ID: <151336@cup.portal.com>
- References: <1996Mar9.164206.53264@cobra.uni.edu>
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- <1996Mar26.121241.53604@cobra.uni.edu> <hrlaserDowBJ5.K8G@netcom.com>
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- >On Tue, 26 Mar 1996 22:23:29 GMT, hrlaser@netcom.com (H.R. Laser)
- >wrote:
- >
- >>PETER SINCLAIR-DAY (sinclap2954@cobra.uni.edu) wrote:
- >>
- >>: And the PowerMac 7200/75 is now $999 and includes a 4x cdrom...
- >>
- >
- >>Brand new Mac Warehouse catalog in my hand, received in mail today.
- >>page 10 "Power Macintosh 7200 75Mhz" 8MB RAM, 500MB HD, 4X CD-ROM
- >>$1399.00. Monitor and keyboard sold separately.
- >>
- >>Where do you and Marc keep coming up with these prices?
- >>
- >>Once again, university store/educator/student prices do not
- >>count for regular non-student non-educator buyers.
- >
- >Agreed.
- >
- >>If you're quoting a price available only at schools to students
- >>or staff or educators, please say so.
- >
- >We aren't. We've routinely quoted going-rate prices that anyone can
- >get over the Internet. There's nothing unfair about that; anyone can
- >buy, and Apple supports it 100%.
-
- So, let's be equally fair here. Tell us about the rumors of problems with
- the 7200/75 and why is Apple so willing to 'give them away'?
-
- Gary Peake "Mystic Meg" Fellow AMIGA Users:
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