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From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: Another Leary thing
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Date: 13 Sep 88 11:52:19 GMT
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In article <14185@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, c60a-1bq@e260-4g.berkeley.edu (nunnayourbiznezz) writes:
> No doubt that computers are useful, but until they fall to at most $400 ($250,
> the price of a tV or stereo would be good0, they will not become truly 
> populist.

They have. I bought my second Atari 800 (an 800XL) for $64. The newer 800s
are a bit more expensive but they're still in the $100 range. Commodore
makes small computers in the same price range, too.

Yes, they're not big machines. They have no hard drive and only 64K of RAM.
But they're quite affordable... in the price range of telephones.

PC clones, if you're willing to put up with a mono adapter and display,
are in the high $400s. If you get a deal on a used Amiga 1000 you can
get a mono system (or TV output) in the same range. Watch for the price
of the 1000 to fall again when the new graphics chips come out.

The Amiga is definitely out of the range of most middle/low income kids, let
alone truly poor people. But its little brother (the Atari 800) isn't.

(I can't see a middle-class kid being well served with anything less than an
Amiga, though. It's not as good as a Mac-II or a 25 MHz 80386 box with a
targa board, but it's better than anything under $5000.)
-- 
		Peter da Silva  `-_-'  peter@sugar.uu.net
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