Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!samsung!crackers!cpoint!frog!rmkhome!rmk From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: The ongoing glut of NeXT-related posts (Re: the recent glut of Amiga-related posts) Message-ID: <9105181414.27@rmkhome.UUCP> Date: 18 May 91 23:14:00 GMT References: <1991May9.044759.27402@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> <1991May13.002647.187@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991May14.131904.9788@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1225@cbmger.UUCP> Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Organization: The Man With Ten Cats Lines: 32 In article <1225@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes: >In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: >> >>In article <1991May14.131904.9788@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >> >> > But you think that an IBM PC/XT >> > is all that most people will ever need? >> >> It's all that J. Random Suit needs. >> >>Unless, he wants to run Lotus 123 3.0 or Excel 3.0. What is the >>probably of that? Maybe you can market your idea? IBM doesn't even >>make an XT anymore. You could sell $400 computers to all of those >>fools who spend big bucks on 386 computers. > >And this is exactly what Commodore does in Europe. All people are >telling about death of the XTs. Rubbish. We're selling tons of those >little, cheap PC 10's and 20's (the latter even has a harddisk!). >There are still enough people around who have to consider their >wallet. This is a point I have made before. I know people with plenty of money, who also recognize that they will only use their home PC once in a while to do some small task like word processing, a small spreadsheet, or their tax returns. In a case like this, where you have a machine that is only lightly used, why spend a lot of money. An XT clone will usually fit the bill. And at a price of about $500 or $600 you can get a monochrome screen and a twenty megabyte disk. If you only turn the thing on once or twice a month, then why pay more? Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP frog!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP