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From: erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: popular computer affordability (was: Re: Another Leary thing )
Summary: Pricing and using
Message-ID: <330@flatline.UUCP>
Date: 16 Sep 88 00:12:21 GMT
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Organization: one bitchin' 3b1 in Tx.Houston.the-Montrose
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In article <1508@ficc.uu.net>, peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
> In article <14292@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, c60a-1bq@e260-4f.berkeley.edu
> 	(nunnayourbiznezz) writes:
>   (Peter da Silva):
[Re: cheap 8bit machines for poor people.]
> > True, there are the Atari 800 and C= 64. Both are solid, cheap machines, but
> > you need more than a console to work.

> Yes. You need a LOGO cartridge ($10), a TV, and a tape recorder.

Tape recorder for C64, the CBM Datasette, runs around $10 used where I've
seen it.  Mine was given to me by a pawn shop:  "We dunno how to make it
play music."

TV's:  I got a *NEW* 12in B/W, with a 90dy warr. for $45 at a 'electronics
warehouse'.

> > In my mind, that is the BARE minimum system.  No cassettes pleez, disk
> > drives have been the only way to go for years.

For big, high data applications, maybe.  I had a year of *BIG* fun
on a VIC-20, Datasette, and BW tv.  Learned lots o neat things.  Same
thing with the RadioShack ModILvI, b/w monitor and RadShack tape deck.
Disk drives are for people in a hurry that have too much money. :-)
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