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- From: molin@ptb.cl.msu.edu (Michael Olin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: A letter to Dave Baggett
- Message-ID: <1i1krbINNk32@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 14:35:23 GMT
- References: <725809675.24154@zooid.guild.org>
- Organization: Michigan State University
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- ron@zooid.guild.org (Secret Mud) writes:
-
- >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?
-
- The pricing of clones is the reason the industry is suffering such a
- nasty shakeout. (Didn't we do this in the mid 80s???) Many clone
- dealers are making such minuscule margins on their chosen machines
- that they can't afford to pay the bills at the end of the month, even
- if they've sold MANY machines. (From my perspective, this is just
- fine by me! I hope the clone market dries up and goes the way of
- the dinosaur. Which is what it is, after all...)
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