[44043] in Cypherpunks
Re: The future will be easy to use (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patiwat Panurach)
Tue Nov 28 03:20:04 1995
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 15:16:01 +0700 (GMT+0700)
From: Patiwat Panurach <pati@ipied.tu.ac.th>
To: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199511280309.WAA10578@pipe3.nyc.pipeline.com>
On Mon, 27 Nov 1995, John Young wrote:
> >Don't hold your breath. The current market surveys say
> >that there is no market for them. Check out this weeks
> >PC Week or Mac Week, as they both have several
> >articles discussing this. Bottem line is that the under
> >$1000 computer seems to have no future either in
> >industry or the home.
>
> Peter Lewis reports in today's NYT on "doubts about the fantasy
> of a $500 'Network PC' " but quotes Eric Schmidt of Sun saying,
I was using a Commodore 64 and a 300 bps modem for networking to the old
online services of the day. That whole setup cost less than 300 dollars
at the time, and had a disk drive too. I guess it would be feasable to
make a really cheap machine, fit it with a more modern modem and connect
it to the internet.
I feel sad when they say that the market for <1000 $ machines is nill, I
had so much fun and learned so much from my old machines.
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