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From: rlcarr@athena.mit.edu (Rich Carreiro)
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Subject: Re: IBM vs AMIGA cost
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Date: 22 Mar 90 00:47:19 GMT
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In article <1990Mar21.224248.9079@caen.engin.umich.edu> chrisl@caen.engin.umich.edu (Chris Lang) writes:

>I know.  I'm still sure we spent well over $2000, with just an A1000, a
>monitor and 256K of memory (the latter cost a couple hundred dollars).

Man!  I must've been lucky!  I was able to get:
A1000
256K add-on (plugged into front)
external drive
monitor
Amiga C (aka Lattice 3.0.3)
for ~$1500 tops (may have been as low as $1295).

That was in May, 1986.

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