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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga competitiveness
Message-ID: <3219@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 8 Oct 90 13:45:52 GMT
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Organization: Corpane Industries Inc., Louisville, KY
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AAW151%URIACC.BITNET@brownvm.brown.edu (Andy Patrizio) writes:


>>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.

>I'm talking if you go to your local dealership. He isn't going to sell you
>parts, he sells it as a whole. And even if you do buy from Computer
>Shopper (and what professional will? CS is for hackers who want to build
>their own, not a corporation that wants to waste time assembling the box.),

Gee, I guess the company I work for isn't professional then. Funny, because
I always thought we were. We have a fortune 500 parent company after all.
But I guess we are just a bunch of hacks. We buy all our PC's mail order,
in pieces and assemble them ourselves. We have mostly 386 and 486 boxes,
running Unix and tied together with ethernet. We do all the work ourselves
because it allows us to pick and choose the parts we want to use, and we
can get better prices on the different parts from different venders.

>you WILL buy a hard drive. Application software demands it. Only an idiot
>would buy a 286/386/486 with 2 floppies.

I guess we are idiots then because we generally buy our 386's and 486's with
just a case, power supply, motherboard and 2 floppies.

We buy our ethernet cards and hard drives and monitors from other vendors.
But then we are just a bunch of idiotic unprofessional hackers.

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