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From: sandrock@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Computer for the rest of us?
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Date: 27 Sep 88 17:38:00 GMT
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* >	What happened to increasing performance and functionality thru the
* >	use of the declining cost of technology?
* 
* Gotcha.
* 
* Have you checked memory prices?  They aren't declining.  I that's why Apple
* is raising their prices.
* ---
* "Come on, fire me up."                 Peter Merchant (merchant@eleazar.UUCP)
*                                              (Peter.G.Merchant@dartmouth.edu)

Are you sure? From page 4 of the Sept. 26 issue of "Digital Review":

	MOBILE, Ala. -- Citing reduced dynamic RAM (DRAM) costs, QMS
	announced that, effective immediately, it has reduced the price
	of two color printers by $3,000 each.

Admittedly the printers contain 8MB and 12MB of RAM each, and admittedly
the subject is getting beaten to death, but wouldn't it have been great
to see price CUTS announced from a certain other manufacturer as well?
Let's hope that Apple still has a few things "up its sleeve" for "the
rest of us"!

Cheers,
Mark Sandrock (sandrock@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu)