Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!motcsd!mcdcup!mcdchg!ddsw1!corpane!sparks From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga competitiveness Message-ID: <3204@corpane.UUCP> Date: 30 Sep 90 15:19:12 GMT References: <31807@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Organization: Corpane Industries Inc., Louisville, KY Lines: 34 limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) writes: >In article <31807@nigel.ee.udel.edu> AAW151%URIACC.BITNET@brownvm.brown.edu (Andy Patrizio) writes: >>There isn't a computer salesman on this planet who would sell a Mac or >>IBM/IBM clone without a hard drive. 40 megs is as standard as memory >>and a motherboard, you don't even think of it as an add-on. >Good point. Huh? I think you two ought to go looking thru the computer shopper. MOST clones are bought in pieces. The minimum configuration is a CPU box, and keyboard, with serial port, parallel port and a Floppy drive. If you want a hard drive they sell it as an option, or as alternate setup costing more. Just like you can buy a 2000HD for a more than a 2000 without a hard drive. IBM sells it's PS/2's without hard drives (at least the two we got here didn't come with them [a -30 and a -50] and I bet the PS/1's don't have hard drives unless you pay extra for them. MacIntoshes cost extra for the hard drive, heck you have to even pay extra to get a keyboard when you buy a Mac. Hard drives are still very much optional peripherals in the world of computing. They are becomming more and more neccisary, but you still have to pay more for it -- John Sparks |D.I.S.K. Public Access Unix System| Multi-User Games, Email sparks@corpane.UUCP |PH: (502) 968-DISK 24Hrs/2400BPS | Usenet, Chatting, =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|7 line Multi-User system. | Downloads & more. A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of----Ogden Nash