NODE f0fa1b6bRe: The future will be easy to use (fwd)
John Young <jya@pipeline.com>Tue, 28 Nov 1995 12:15:35 +0800
Responding to msg by ravage@einstein.ssz.com (Jim Choate) on
Mon, 27 Nov 8:54 PM
>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,
"They will exist and they will be very successful, and not just
from Sun and Oracle. The price points are going to be pretty
low, and they'll look more like consumer electronics."
Anybody want this mixed review send us a BOX_top.
NODE b1020c77Re: The future will be easy to use (fwd)
Patiwat Panurach <pati@ipied.tu.ac.th>Tue, 28 Nov 1995 20:31:27 +0800
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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