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From: tony@mwuk.UUCP (Tony Mountifield)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Dowty vs Trailblazer
Message-ID: <269@mwuk.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 91 12:52:54 GMT
References: <1991Feb11.162658.20202@tabbs.UUCP> <1991Feb15.092120.28925@micromuse.co.uk> <1991Feb16.205454.21893@johnny5.uucp>
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In article <1991Feb16.205454.21893@johnny5.uucp> garvey@johnny5.uucp (Joe Garvey) writes:
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> > have the T2500 equivalent available at 1400 pounds (about $US 2800 now
> > !). That's sick.
> 
> I'm sorry, I don't beleive this. 1400 pounds cannot equal 2800 US dollars.
> I don't have the financial section handy, but ...
> 
> That would mean  1 pound = .5 US dollar.

No, it would mean 1 pound = 2 US dollar (just divide both numbers by 1400 :-)

>                                          Last I remember it was more
> like 1 dollar = 1.35 pounds (I can actual remember a time when it was over
> 2 pounds to the dollar). Assuming I'm some where in the ball park (+/- 30
> cents)... Then 1400 pounds ~= 1037 US dollars.

Ummm, I think you're remembering upside-down. Currently, the pound buys
somewhere between $1.90 and $2.00. The lowest the pound got to (sometime
in the last few years) was around $1.10 or just under, I believe. In the
dim and distant past, I think a pound could buy $4 or more.

> This is about what you'd pay in the US... though it's below list price
> from Telebit (last time *I* asked), it's slightly above what the market
> price is. Considering transport to the UK from Sunnyvale California, then
> it might be reasonable.

Well it does illustrate the heavily-loaded price over here.

> Question: Is it 100 pence to a pound? What fraction is a quid (sp?)?

Yes, 100 pence = 1 pound. A quid is just a slang word for a pound (like
buck is for dollar).

> Joe Garvey                       uucp: sumax!ole!johnny5!garvey
> J5 Research                      registration has been sent in, though we're
> Bothell, Wa.                     not in the maps yet.

Tony.
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