Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!udel!sbcs!eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu!dtiberio From: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Anyone actually own an 040 Amiga? Message-ID: <1991May9.202323.5208@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Date: 9 May 91 20:23:23 GMT References: <+q2G9+1*1@cs.psu.edu> <11786@uwm.edu> <2q4Gfxv*1@cs.psu.edu> Sender: usenet@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Usenet poster) Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 28 In article <2q4Gfxv*1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: >In article <11786@uwm.edu> gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) writes: > > forever so they'll pay more money for something that they won't use. > > Slabs cost $2500. If nExt doesn't offer another board for the Slab, > > I'll just order out for another pizza box. I imagine that an 040 nExt > > will still be worth $1000 to $1500 in three years(slab only). > > Yeow, that's what I call degredation. My 2000 will probably be worth > that much... With all the software, of course. As is yours. > >Your right. I was thinking that the nExtstation costs $3250(it does >educationally). It really costs $5000, so it will probably be worth >around $3000 grand in 3 years. ^^^^^^^^^^ What is this, some sort of subliminal message? How would the value INCREASE? And how dishonest of you to buy a computer, keep it 3.5 years, and give a $250 discount... > >-Mike -- David Tiberio SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481 AMIGA DDD-MEN "If you think that we're here for the money, we could live without it. But the world isn't too good here, and it wasn't always like that." Un ragazzo di Casalbordino, Italia.