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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Subject: Re: It's really tough to debate with ignorant...
Message-ID: <1991May9.003008.23732@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Sender: torrie@neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
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Date: Thu, 9 May 1991 00:30:08 GMT
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greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) writes:

>In article <1991May8.014526.15073@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
>>  Seems to me like there are a LOT of commercial applications in your
>>list of software on your hard disk.  How on earth could you avoid all those
							      ^^^^^
  Did I really write that?  Boy that shows you what reading news at 1
a.m. in the morning does to you.  Of course I meant "afford".

>>programs, yet you don't want to buy a $1000 hard disk??

>Think of it this way:  For $1250 you can have lots of commercial apps and a
>40MB HD ($1000 for software + the $250 drive) -OR- you can have a totally
>empty 660MB drive (if you shop around).  Well, empty except for PD and/or
>pirated software (I don't support piracy...).

  Or you could have a 200MB ($700) hard disk and $500 worth of
software.  It just seemed strange to me that the original post had
a large number of repeated application programs (e.g. three DTP
packages, three word processors etc).  I would have thought you really
only would need one of each type, especially if you're strapped for
cash.

  I would rather have a 200MB hard disk, and one of each type of
commercial application, and fill the rest up with PD software.. Then
again, I just hate floppy disks :-)



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