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From: jdb@mordor.UUCP (John Bruner)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga,net.micro.atari,net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: The real debate begins: Atari ST vs Commodore 128
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Date: Sat, 11-Jan-86 12:37:43 EST
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>What is it about dropping the price on a machine ( which can do more than
>computers selling for many thousands of $ a few years ago) changes it to
>a toy?

Also, why does a high price change a toy machine into a "serious" one?
I have great difficulty considering a machine which can't display
reasonable-quality text without flicker anything but a sophisticated
games machine.
-- 
  John Bruner (S-1 Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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