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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: NEC Hard Drive
Message-ID: <13236@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 23 Feb 89 19:09:03 GMT
References: <15@dbase.UUCP> <8400010@gistdev> <117@psgdc>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <117@psgdc> rg@psgdc (Dick Gill) writes:

| Nice flame. Why don't people understand that acquiring computer
| equipment or software is no different than other aspects of life
| in general; you don't always get what you pay for, but you
| *never* get what you don't pay for!

  Wow! I bet you buy only IBM equipment, and at full price rather than
from one of those "cheap discount places." Most of us shop around, and
often get things at really good prices (new hard disks, no warrantee,
$1.30/lb?) when we can. Some of us also wind up selling stuff really
cheap to get volume up on a buy. I dumped some 256k memory for $7/chip
to get from 600 to 1000 piece pricing. Right now I'm getting people to
buy 20MHz 386 w/ 40MB drives for $2000 (in dozens).

  There are lots of ways to legitimately get things cheaply, and I see
no reason to flame someone from being frugal.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me