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From: jerry@starfish.Convergent.COM (Gerald Hawkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: What I've Done to Postpone Buying a New PC
Message-ID: <798@starfish.Convergent.COM>
Date: 4 Nov 88 02:04:16 GMT
References: <1218@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA
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From article <1218@helios.ee.lbl.gov>, by forrest@ux1.lbl.gov (Jon Forrest):
> If you're like me you have a PC XT (or clone) with a 20 meg hard
> disk, 640K of memory, a Hercules graphics board (or EGA), and
> you've been thinking about what, if anything, to do about either
> upgrading what you have or buying something completely new.
> I personally think that now is a bad time to buy hardware. We all
> 
> I'd be interested in hearing what other people have to say about this.
> Jon Forrest		Lawrence Berkeley Lab., 486-4991
> forrest@lbl.gov			(internet)
> ucbvax!lbl-csam!ux1!forrest	(uucp)
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Computer prices have gone down by 20% - 30% per year for the last 15 years or
so.  Therefore there will always be a reason to hold off buying anything
until `later'.  There are lots of reasons to buy now (No, I am not a
salesman).  Computer prices are damn good right now.  I can get a brand new
AT machine with EGA and 20MB and color and MSDOS for only about $1500.  Add a
24 pin printer and a mouse and your whole package is still well under $2000.
The performance of that package is around 7 times your IBM-PC.

What computer you buy and use is a bit of a reflection on how you feel about
yourself.  Do your own psychoanalysis, but I feel I work hard and deserve a
nice machine like my AT clone.  On the other hand, I honestly cannot afford
the 20MHz 386 DOS/Unix Server PC that my company makes--though I would rather
have it.  I get frustrated when I work with a slow clunky computer!

Of course, for you to upgrade, you probably don't have to buy a whole
machine.  I don't know that much about it, but don't you just have to buy a
board?  Your drive and keyboard and printer, monitor, etc., should still be
ok.


Rainy Days and
Automatic Weapons Fire
Alway Get Me Down.

These opinions are mine.
Jerry.  (jerry@Starfish.Convergent.COM)
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