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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IBM vs AMIGA cost
Message-ID: <7003@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 90 02:17:38 GMT
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Reply-To: dailey@cpsin2.UUCP (Chris Dailey)
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State Univ., E. Lansing
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In article <4260@vaxwaller.UUCP> richc@vaxwaller.UUCP (Rich Commins) writes:
[..info about then Amiga prices and now PC-Clone prices deleted..]
>The harddisk for the AMIGA was cheap at the time.  The the AMIGA first came
>out, the harddisks were around $1500.00.  The reason for this was because the
>harddisk required an external box, power supply and interface connector.
Also, SCSI was not very popular, with relatively few
manufacturers/vendors.  Nowadays they are about as easy to find as
ST-506 type and are competitively priced.

>Rich Commins   (415)939-2400				          \  /\

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