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From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IBM vs AMIGA cost
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Date: 22 Mar 90 14:40:49 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).
>
> -Chris

Yes that sounds about right.  I think I spent right at $2000 for my
512K machine + monitor about 6 mos after the 1000 debuted.  I think
this price included a couple of raggity applications like Textcraft
and something else that I can't recall now...

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--Steve
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