Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!rutgers!caip!clyde!burl!codas!akgua!usl!elg From: elg@usl.UUCP (Eric Lee Green) Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm Subject: Re: C-Plus: Worth $80 for WP Message-ID: <955@usl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Oct-86 14:18:47 EDT Article-I.D.: usl.955 Posted: Fri Oct 3 14:18:47 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Oct-86 19:23:21 EDT References: <1390001@hpvcla.UUCP> <762@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> <1082@rlgvax.UUCP> Reply-To: elg@usl.UUCP (Eric Lee Green) Organization: USL, Lafayette, La. Lines: 62 In article <1082@rlgvax.UUCP> bub@rlgvax.UUCP ( Mongo Mauler) writes: > > Commodore 128 computer ~260.00 > CBM 1541 disk drive ~150.00 > Monochrome 80 col. monitor ~100.00 - 200.00 > Letter quality printer ~350.00 (including interface) > Word processing software ~100.00 - 150.00 > ------------------------------------------------------------- > APPROXIMATE TOTAL SYSTEM COST ~960.00 (+-100.00) > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > If it were my choice between HAVING to buy a good typewriter > or putting together a home computer based word processing > system, I'd certainly opt for the WP system, based on my own > laziness. That $350 for the letter quality printer seems somewhat high. I bought a Blue Chip daisy-wheel printer for $199 -- it's slow as heck, but GEEZ, that sucker prints good. Also, the MPS-1000, last I looked, was selling for about $299 or so, and prints pretty good near-letter-quality text (since it's just an Epson Homewriter with a serial bus interface). I put together my C-128 for about this price: C-128 -------------------- $269 1541 drive *used* ---------- $100 (just look for someone who upgraded from a C-64 to a 128) 80 column monochrome monitor $50 *new* (just look, you can find one for this price anywhere) Blue Chip printer $199 word processor $90 Total --------------------- $708 I originally used the MPS-803 from my C-64 system (which my brother claimed), but bought the Blue Chip when I needed a letter-quality printer to print the I.C.E. manual on (somehow, sending our customers 80 pages of eye-strain dot-matrix didn't seem to be a good solution). I also needed a new typewriter because my 40-year-old Royal manual was losing pieces here and there and I was running out of rubber bands and bailing wire to hold it together, and $199 sure seemed like a cheap price for an electric typewriter (which is basically what it is -- a Brother typewriter engine, in a printer case with proper interface electronics). But, I'll tell you one thing -- I'm sure getting a 1571 as soon as possible! 1541s are for the birds... I don't know of any other low-end computers that have an 80 column display for this price... the Atari 520st is around $1000 fully decked, while the little Atari only has a 40 column screen. I wouldn't try editing text on a 40 column screen, unless you have a direct line to a psychiatrist and an optometrist.... -- Eric Green {akgua,ut-sally}!usl!elg (Snail Mail P.O. Box 92191, Lafayette, LA 70509) " In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."