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Old 03-24-2011, 05:10 PM   #76
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Default Re: PC vs amiga pricing in the 80s and 90's. Were PC owners getting screwed?
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Compared to the prices of the AtariST and Amiga to the Amstrad, to me it's clear the Amstrad people were ripped off as wel.
-edit- unless.. of course it came with a monitor...
Yeah, the CPCs came with a monitor.
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Old 03-24-2011, 08:50 PM   #77
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Hi,

I have been with the IBM PC's ever since 1982 when they first came out, seeing that a floppy disk cost about $595 and a 5 meg hard drive cost about $1000 (999.99) I don't think that PC owners where getting ripped off, I think that they were just plain stupid.

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