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From: jordan@noscvax.UUCP (Martin C. Jordan)
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Subject: Leading Edge PC
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Date: Tue, 15-Oct-85 13:29:51 EDT
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From: Martin C. Jordan <jordan@cod>
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To: amc543@uxa.CSO.UIUC.EDU
Subject: Re: Leading Edge PC
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri Sep 27 09:19:40 1985

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Aaron,
        Many thanks for reply to question about the Leading Edge D. It
certainly appears to be a well-built machine. A friend of mine took
delivery of his recently. It ran all text-oriented programs without
a hitch, but balked at any graphics/game programs. In fact, it didn't
want to display the graphic output of a TurboPascal program I had written 
and used on my COMPAQ at work. I couldn't find out to my satisfaction
if this was because of the monitor used, the "Hercules emulator," or a
compatability problem. I even called Borland and Leading Edge. There were
just too many "maybes" for me. So, I recently took delivery of a PC clone 
made in Taiwan (closer than Korea I figured) which is essentially an
XT w/o hard disk, a "real" Hercules Color card, 384K on an AST 6 PAK, a
Princeton HX-12 monitor, and an FX-85 printer with cable. This was $1995 
vs $1500 for the monochrome Leading Edge. Besides, my wife said to get 
what we both need and OK'd it. The shop is located here in San Diego. It
had the same computer, 256K, monochrome card and monitor for only $995.
Buying the same printer as with the Leading Edge was only $200 more. Still
a chunk of change less than the L.E. Thanks again for your response and 
for listening to my rambling about my new "toy."

                                        Sincerely,

                                                Martin
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