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- From: 01mbmccabe@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Porky pig.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.212553.13546@bsu-ucs>
- Date: 13 Jan 93 02:25:53 GMT
- References: <5JAN93.09425752@cc4.crl.aecl.ca><C0Furt.I67@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, <H.ea.vmmCYe4H5P6@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca>
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- > BTW, check out misc.forsale.computers for used hard drive prices. I
- > bought a 50M Quantum for $80 a few months ago...
-
- Hmm...Is that really a message are on the Net? I'll go chack after this
- session, but I dunno if BSU subscribes to that particular message base. After
- the $80, I'd still have get case/LINK, no?
-
- >> I believe someone said something about that being a beta copy, or unliscenced
- >> or something. Of course pirating is not so unfamiliar to many clone users.
- >
- > How exactly does one pirate a CD-ROM? 650M hard drives aren't exactly
- > cheap... ;-)
-
- C'mon! OS/2 isn't 650megabytes long! Is it? Even so, I've seen one of my
- friends walking around with MS-DOS 5.0 (I think it was) on a fist-full
- of 720k floppies--they're cheap ya know.
-
- >> Anywho, it sounds like you're on the right track. Buy what you need. Use
- >> will-power. Buy only what you need. The clone-realm is prone to draw a man to
- >> gadget hell. Look at them, look at what Atari can do, look at what MAC can do.
- >> Good luck!
- >
- > Precisely why I'm trying to collect as much info as possible... I
- > figure I'm pretty immune to the clone sales droids, but my fiancee's
- > father isn't...
-
- Heheh....Well, good luck to him too!
-
- -Matt
-
- P.S. I get a chuckle every time I read "sales _droids_"....heheh.
-