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From: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
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Subject: Re: It's really tough to debate with ignorant...
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Date: 12 May 91 19:12:06 GMT
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In article <1991May8.014526.15073@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
>dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes:
>
>>  I have a 40 meg hard drive, and 2.5 megs of ram, with the following
>>software on my HARD DRIVE, plus lots of other stuff, and tons of pictures,
>>fonts and source code, which fill a 12 megabyte partition:
>

  [ lots of evidence deleted]

>
>>  Yeah, if your a rich cheap person. I bought my hard drive for $250.
>                   ^^^^
>
>  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
>programs, yet you don't want to buy a $1000 hard disk??
>

  The company I work for bought most of the software that is not public domain.
Second, why should I buy a $1000 hard disk when I can get a $250 hard disk 
that does the job just as well? 

>>           David Tiberio  SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481  AMIGA  DDD-MEN   
>
>
>-- 
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Evan Torrie.  Stanford University, Class of 199?       torrie@cs.stanford.edu  
>"And in the death, as the last few corpses lay rotting in the slimy
> thoroughfare, the shutters lifted in inches, high on Poacher's Hill..."


-- 
           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.