> Alas, they know we also love the convenience of CD-ROM program
> installation or straight run use, too. Thing is, I think most of
> us will agree that the diskette is rapidly becoming obsolete, what
> happens when that often cheaper alternative is gone?
> (Maybe the same thing that hapenened to 486's when those booted the
> 386 out of the market... hmmm... I worry to much! <G>

  Yup.  Same thing that always happens.  Current Technology almost always
stays in the same price range.  It's only the leading-edge stuff that's
really difficult to figure out...

  A good example is my 170mb IDE hard drive I have in this system.  When I
bought it, it was one of the largest drives you could get for under $500...
When I bought my 1.2 gig EIDE drive last year, it was less money than my 170
mb drive was!

  Just like hard drive prices, as better and bigger technology comes out, it
simply pushes the price of the other technology down.  You'll ALWAYS be able
to get a personal computer for somewhere between $1,000 to $3,000.  But what
you buy two years from now for $1,000 will be much better than what you can
get today for $3,000, and what you could get six years from now for $500 will
be better than today's $5,000 computers...

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