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From: josef@ugun21.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: 32K "do-it-yourself" kits...
Message-ID: <19900001@ugun21>
Date: 8 Nov 88 07:51:00 GMT
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Nf-From: ugun21.UUCP!josef    Nov  8 08:51:00 1988


In one of the previous responses Trip Martin writes:

>If you were National, would you want to spend lots of resources on
>a minimal profit-margin market?

I agree with You that You couldn't rip lots of $$$$ off people when
all they buy is one or two items.
BUT ... How many people have thought: "Gee, I would love to take a look
at the 32k series, but aren't these buggers expensive?"
If the Z80 would still cost $100, no decent CP/M systems would be around,
if PCs would still cost $10,000, what would You do? Buy one, write
lots of interesting software for it?
Why is U**X used by so many universities? Because they paid much money
or because they got it almost for free??

In my humble opinion, the abovementioned policy works counterproductive.

		Josef Moellers

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