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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?

Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
From: Matthew Montchalin <mmontcha@OregonVOS.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 13:39:36 -0700
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On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Beyonder wrote:

|You people are insane.
|for $300 you can get a high end pentium 3 system, loaded.

Loaded with crap.  What we want, is something we can actually
use (program in 6502, and that means providing for a multiplicity
of 6502 systems in parallel, if we have to).

|for $100 more you can get a high end 1.4gig system, loaded.
|and these are retail prices! that doesn't include monitor, 
|but who cares?

Who in their right mind wants to use a PC?

|get with the times.

I like the olden 'daze' a lot more.

Follow-Ups:
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: Woody <mark.woodmass@nospam.ntlworld.com>
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: wbdesnoy@acs5.acs.ucalgary.ca (Byron Desnoyers Winmill)

References:
- If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: "T.J.T van Kooten" <thomas@-nospam-worldonline.nl>
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: Matthew Montchalin <mmontcha@OregonVOS.net>
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: Matthew Montchalin <mmontcha@OregonVOS.net>
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: Beyonder <beyonder@vrx.net>

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