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Re: Beagle Bros and Wonderful disk drive noises
- Subject: Re: Beagle Bros and Wonderful disk drive noises
- From: tangent@cyberport.com (Warren Young)
- Date: 1996/06/22
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers, comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: none
- References: <4q4jdf$5cn@access1.digex.net> <Dt6poA.E17@news.hawaii.edu> <4q6ftg$d62@access1.digex.net> <4q6kj1$e41@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <4q8u04$9@top.mitre.org>
jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) wrote:
>>>What are Beagle Bros. catalogs?
>
>>Beagle Bros. was a Apple II software company run out of San Diego.
>
>And their prices were shown in hex, at least in the price lists I
>remember seeing. (Think about the way hex numbers are shown written...)
No, _all_ catalogs use dollar signs in front of their prices -- that's
what the symbol is for. Wait a minute...that means that I've been
paying in decimal all these years...and they never noticed.
(Historical note: Apples (and other machines I recall) denoted hex
with a dollar sign in front. So, $300 was 768 decimal.)
= Warren -- http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent