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From: chrisl@caen.engin.umich.edu (Chris Lang)
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Subject: Re: IBM vs AMIGA cost
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Date: 22 Mar 90 04:42:00 GMT
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In article <1990Mar22.004719.18611@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rlcarr@space.mit.edu (Animato) writes:
>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.

Well, the prices I quoted were as of November, 1985, and, as I said, there was
a substantial drop in price shortly thereafter...I don't remember HOW 
substantial, but the prices you mentioned don't seem too out of line (although
still pretty good for mid-1986).

 -Chris
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