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From: cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz)
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Subject: Re: The TT is finally there!
Keywords: TT
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Date: 2 Oct 90 21:31:53 GMT
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In article <1990Oct1.215142.10460@chx400.switch.ch> poole@chx400.switch.ch (Simon Poole) writes:
>In article <1990Oct1.142505.30917@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) writes:
>>In article <1990Sep30.175318.17716@chx400.switch.ch> poole@chx400.switch.ch (Simon Poole) writes:
>...
>>>
>>>Anyway the main problem with the TT (except Atari per se) is price:
>>>it's nearly twice as expensive as what I payed a long time ago (can
>>>it be five years? how time flys) for my ST520. If you ask around, most
>>
>>Well, I'm not sure how fair it is to compare prices of a 5 year old
>>68000 system and a new 68030 system.  That might be a bit of a stretch.
>>
>
>At the time I bought my ST, you could just barely get a basic 286 system
>without hard disk for the amount of money the ST costed, now I could
>get a reasonable 386 system for the same (I doubt if any x86 system is
>reasonable anyway :-)). Why shouldn't Atari customers expect a similar
>advance in bang for the buck?

Well, when you put it that way, perhaps you have a point.  I never 
thought I'd see that day when Simon Poole (the God of UniTerm) would
become an ST skeptic. :-)

BTW, I'd appreciate if you'd email me the cost of a basic 386 system
in Zurich.  When I was in Sion, I saw pretty average 386's for about
CHf3000.

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> poole@verw.switch.ch / poole@chx400.switch.ch / mcsun!chx400!poole
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Chris





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