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From: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IBM vs AMIGA cost
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Date: 2 Mar 90 02:50:38 GMT
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In article <5527@ur-cc.UUCP> jea@cvs.rochester.edu (Joanne Albano) writes:
>Several folk here claim that an equivalently loaded IBM-clone
>system with 40 meg HD, 3 Megs ram, '386 and VGA graphics with
>monitor costs $600-800 less than than the A2500/30 at $3600
> Room 274 Meliora Hall, Univ. of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627 
> INTERNET: jea@cvs.rochester.edu

This may be true, it may not, but what OS you going to run on the
thing?  MS-DOS? -- there goes the useability of your 3Megs of
memory...  OS/2? -- there goes the price difference.. :)

Personal aside:  Rochester is a beautiful city when it's sunny... :)

David Navas                                   navas@cory.berkeley.edu
"Think you can, think you can't -- either way it's true."  Henry Ford