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From: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Color Monitors (was Re:Wait a Sec...)
Message-ID: <484@forty2.UUCP>
Date: 7 Oct 88 00:15:24 GMT
References: <3163@sdsu.UUCP> <120@pande.UUCP>
Reply-To: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole)
Organization: Exp. Physics University Zuerich
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In article <120@pande.UUCP> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Ricardo Autobahn) writes:
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>Americans, in general, have more disposible income than the rest of
>the world.
>

Ugh, this is nearly as bad as Dan Quale claiming "America  is the envy
of the rest of the world", in particular with reference to Europe your
claim is much to broad to do justice to the diversity of political and
social systems (and incomes) that exist in Europe.

>I'm sure the European preference for colour is just as great, but
>the *relative* cost is higher. Same for other toys like CD players.

I don't think this is true, for  most people the  problem is that they
only want to have/can afford ONE monitor, not  the difference in price
(about 20% more for a 1040ST and 10% for a Mega  2). Since the ST does
not have such a `games machine` image here, people tend to buy the B&W
monitor, mainly because  it's  much easier on  your eyes (and there is
quite a lot of stuff here that only runs on a B&W system).

Matter of fact I've  always wondered why people in  the US put up with
such  things as  Mac screens, 50 line  displays on the  ST, the gastly
default Apollo workstation font,  low resolution colour monitors etc.,
perhaps there's a US-optician Mafia?  :-)

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