Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: info on cost of Amiga 3000 and educational discount Message-ID: <2052@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 27 Sep 90 02:24:31 GMT Lines: 30 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In <223@mohawk.cs.utexas.edu>, bryan@cs.utexas.edu (Bryan Bayerdorffer @ Wit's End) writes: >In article <2044@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes: >=-In , andrewsr@u2.rutgers.edu (Rich Andrews) writes: >=->> Amiga 3000/25Mhz-100MB HD System: list: $5798, Education: $3899 >=->> 25 50 4798, 3039 >=-> ^^^ >=-> >=->Why is the 100MB version over $800 more? >=- >=-Other than the obvious 'Because people will buy it for the advantages', take a >=-closer look at what you are getting... >=- >=-1.565 times the speed >=-2 times the HD storage >=- > Er, read that again Larry. In both cases it's the 3000/25, so there is >no speedup. What you get for $800 is the larger drive, and as I understand it, > ..... oops.. yup. -- It is not possible to both understand and appreciate Intel CPUs. -D.Wolfskill +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+