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From: g-chapma@gumby.UUCP
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Subject: RE: what's needed for a home computer (A Use)
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Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 11:48:39 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  7 11:48:39 1985
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> What's needed for a home pc is a USE!  Let's get real, folks, who cares
> what features it has if there's nothing you can do with it to justify
> the cost.
> 
> [A number of possibilities are enumerated, and their impractibility
> pointed out.]
>
> Ken Bandes

How about investing?  A computer allows access to timely statistics, and
facilitates making appropriate analyses that would involve much time and
effort if done manually.

Ralph Chapman
U Wisc
g-chapma @ gumby @ uwvax