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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: Apple requires too much money and sacrifice of control
Date: 26 Mar 2025 02:05:53 GMT
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On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:01:05 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

> I feel bad for anyone who spent that much money on a computer back in
> the day, only to be told that it was obsolete a year or two later. The
> only affordable options for most people were Atari 800s, Commodore 64s
> or TI994/As, everything else seemed to require us to take a second
> mortgage on our homes.

When the Osborne 1 came out in 1981 I was happy to pay $1800 for it. I got 
several years use from it before inevitably getting dragged into the MSDOS 
world. 

Later I bought two of the mythical Osborne Executives when the Boston 
Globe was dumping them for PCs. They went at fire sale prices and I 
couldn't resist.