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- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 16:18:20 EST
- From: <SML108@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <92366.161820SML108@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: A letter to Dave Baggett
- References: <725809675.24154@zooid.guild.org>
- Lines: 22
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- In article <725809675.24154@zooid.guild.org>, ron@zooid.guild.org (Secret Mud)
- says:
- >
- >From: aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys)
- >>
- >>And your 486 cost about $1,500 more than the ST. $1,500 more than
- >>some of us can afford or are willing to pay for a computer.
- >>
- >
- >Oddly enough, $1500 CDN is *exactly* what a friend paid a couple weeks ago for
- >his 486-33 system. That's including tax, and also including an SVGA monitor,
- >a 105 meg hard disk, 3.5 & 5 1/4" floppies, 4 meg of ram, 512k SVGA card,
- >etc...
- >
- >The pricing for clones is getting rather scarey, isn't it?
-
- And right here in America, US $899 will buy you a 20Mhz 486SX, 2 MB memory
- SVGA monitor, 85 MByte hard drive from chain store Montgomery Ward...
-
- Today's magic atari password is "tick, tick, tick..."
-
- Scott
-