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From: ali@polya.STANFORD.EDU (Ali Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Computer Chronicles on PBS covers Mac-stuff nearly weekly now.
Message-ID: <2100@polya.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 2 Mar 88 15:13:25 GMT
References: <1049@ut-emx.UUCP>
Reply-To: ali@polya.stanford.edu (Ali Ozer)
Organization: Stanford University
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In article <1049@ut-emx.UUCP> kraut@ut-emx.UUCP (kraut) writes:
>(just announced?) Atari 68030 UNIX box bundled with a LaserWriter and some
>other stuff for under $5000 - can that be true?

Sounds like Atari --- you'll see the box out on the market in 18 months.
By which time $5000 won't be so hot for a 68030 box and a laser printer.
Look at what happened with their laser printer --- When they announced it,
it was a great deal --- About $1500! Believe it or not, about a year and a half
ago laser printers under $2000 were rare, and this sounded good.
Well, in their own Atari fashion, they brought it out to the market somewhat
too late and with enough corners cut off so that it's not exactly the deal
it seemed to be --- Laser printer with no postscript and NO memory (you need to
build your bitmaps in your computer) for just under $2000. You can get
laser printers with memory for much under that these days! Same goes
pretty much for their Mega ST (whose priced climbed steadily during the
year between anouncement & shipment...). 

Ali Ozer, ali@polya.stanford.edu