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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: Woody <mark.woodmass@nospam.ntlworld.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 21:58:12 +0100
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On Sun, 15 Jul 2001 13:39:36 -0700, Matthew Montchalin
<mmontcha@OregonVOS.net> wrote:

>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).

Nah, eZ80 Webserver chip ;-)

>|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?

Me, although I do see your point.

>|get with the times.
>
>I like the olden 'daze' a lot more.

Agreed.
Of course in another 20 years time emulating a Windows crash might be
fun :)

-- 
Get yourself a new Speccy emulator.
It's free and it works - at least on my machine!
http://www.geocities.com/specemu/index.html

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>
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: Matthew Montchalin <mmontcha@OregonVOS.net>

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