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From: lopez@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: pc clone
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Date: Mon, 18-May-87 22:54:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 18 22:54:00 1987
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>/* Written  1:54 pm  May 15, 1987 by berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu in uiucdcsm:comp.sys.ibm.pc */
>Actually, Lopez, if anybody is dumb, it's somebody who's so
>narrow minded that they think the one ad with the lowest
>prices they've seen has to be the best deal in the world.

I agree.

>I'll bet Dayton Hamvention prices were 20% lower than your
>best ad. 

(Send me the prices via e-mail, they had better be good)

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Ding Dong!!!!!!! 
Hello Berger, ...

I have read thousands of Ads in the last 9 months of researching the all
around best PC.  Yes, open market prices for the AT&T PC are well above the
wonder boxes you can buy from Japan, Korea, and Uncle Ben's kitchen.

For those of us who want to protect our investments over the long run,
buying a wonder box is cheap, and yes if the company survives and becomes
large (Leading Edge) our investment is protected, but more likely the company
will go belly up in a matter of time, and nobody wants a used PC that has
no company behind it, unless of course "Uncle Ben" has a nephew.

>
>			Mike Berger
>			Center for Advanced Study
>			University of Illinois 

You know what, you are only a couple of hundred yards from where I am right now,
how about (as Clinger recommended) we all keep our personal flames off of 
world wide networks.  This is definitely directed at only one person,
and has no backing: AT&T FOCUS isn't BYTE magazine. 

>
>			berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu
>
>Actually, Berger, if anybody is dumb, it's somebody who's so
>narrow minded that they post a personal flame on a world-wide network, when 
>they are only around the corner from them (literally).

But hey I deserved the comment for the first line of my response, not the
one you picked. (well, maybe that one too, and the one after it, ...)

>
>			{ihnp4 | convex | pur-ee}!uiucuxc!clio!berger
>
>/* End of text from uiucdcsm:comp.sys.ibm.pc */

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