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Subject: Re: HP 500 Deskjet Advice
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Date: 25 Nov 90 04:11:44 GMT
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In article <16114@brahms.udel.edu>, dey@brahms.udel.edu (Noel Dean Dey) writes...
>In article <1990Nov23.221728.16389@rodan.acs.syr.edu> amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen) writes:
>>In article <11546@j.cc.purdue.edu> zhou@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Albert Zhou)
>>>How much is it?  If under $1000 it's worth considering.
> 
>If you check your universities volume purchase agreements, or whomever 
>sells computers on campus, you may find prices UNDER $400 for the 
>DJ 500. I couldn't resist it and am thrilled by the quality I get
>using my Amiga.

I paid about $350 for mine on university purchase order.  That's a hell of a 
deal.  Sure, you can get a IIP for $1000, plus the cost to upgrade memory 
you can do full page graphics.  I think the DJ500 is a bold move by HP into
the lower-end market, and will make serious inroads into the price range
normally occupied by dot-matrix only.  I'm VERY pleased with it.

BTW, I called Microsoft to get an updated MS Word .PRD file for the
DJ500.  The rep said they didn't have one, and had no plans to support
it. Stupid Answer.  More evidence that Microsoft is abandoning vanilla
DOS products for Windows apps (INMO).
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