19 Nov
1997
19 Nov
'97
3:37 a.m.
At 12:50 AM 11/19/97 GMT, you wrote:
successful. I agree with Jeff in that the thing that
makes most of
the systems "special" to me is the fact that not everybody could just
go down to the local Best Buy/Circuit City/Sears store, buy one, plug
it in, and use it. It took some determination, some ingenuity, and a
I bought my Atari 600XL from Sears, and I would have to say that not
everybody at the time could have put that to use.
btw, the HP3000 has been produced for, what, 20+ years continuously, and
some of the various models are extremely collectible.
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