Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!wuarchive!m.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!firenze!wmagro
From: wmagro@firenze.uiuc.edu (William Magro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ST peripherals - UK versus US
Message-ID: <1991Mar5.021312.4059@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 5 Mar 91 02:13:12 GMT
References: <1185@exua.exeter.ac.uk>
Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News)
Reply-To: wmagro@firenze.physics.uiuc.edu (William Magro)
Organization: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Lines: 22

In article <1185@exua.exeter.ac.uk>, SAMcinty@exua.exeter.ac.uk (Scott McIntyre) writes:
|> I recently purchased a STE from a company here in the UK, but
|> have also noticed that the going price for my system in the States
|> is about half as much....
|>  
|> The main damage is done, but I am going to be in the market for
|> hard drives, printers, etc, and the more I look at the prices here,
|> the more flummoxed I get!
|>  
|> The typical 24 pin printer is about #259 (give or take a bit) which
|> translates to nearly $475!!!!!!!  Seems outrageous...especially
|> the hard drives, going price for 40megs is #350, which is nearly
|> $700 US!  


Wow!  Those prices are outrageous!  A 100 meg drive can be had for 
$399 these days if you look around (that's a bare drive).  I sort 
of remember looking through a UK ST mag and getting excited at
the low prices and all the support.  Are we thinking of the same
UK???

--Bill Magro