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Subject: COMSPEC ...
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Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 23:26:54 EST
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In article <403@ism780c.UUCP> tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) writes:
>When you have high demand and not much competition, you will see high
>prices if the people selling are trying to make maximum profits.
>At least with the open nature of the Amiga, you people will probably not
>have to wait that long!

Is that why Lotus 1-2-3 is still running $495, and color cards are
still $300.

I hope you are right, but it seems that support companies like to price
accessories/software as a percentage of the purchase price of the
target machine.  If you paid $2000 for the micro, you must be willing
to pay $1000 for the drive, unless you can get it from Japan for $300.
Software is worse because Japan doesn't write much software :}

If you paid $1000 for the PC, you probably won't pay more than $500
for the drive, or more than $100 for software.