Prices & Rants(was: Future Computing Trends. Still is, I g - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

23 Feb 1998

...
 Oh, and as per a previous mail by someone that you had
replied to with  a
...
 hotmail.com account (so this isn't at you directly,
but I cannot find  the
...
 intermediate mail): Last I checked, Russians don't
use dollars, they  use
...
 Rubles. I have a 1990 5 Ruble proof coin I purchased in
East Berlin  while I
...
 was there in my collection. (25 years ago, most coins
were cheaper than
computers -- now it's the other way around!) So I was making a  statement
...
 about the pitiful (IMHO) status of the American dollar,
just to clear
things up. Not to go too much off topic, but I made the russia comment, because I 
was born in the USSR, and it is very apparent to me. They DO use rubles, 
but before they artificially deflated it (with a clone case :), the 
xchng rate was something like 5000 Rubles to a US Dollar. I was watching 
a Russian comedy program a few days ago, and they mentioned that Russia 
has more dollars than the US, discussing the aid US gives them :) 
Actually, dollars are pretty much common there now, with slightly 
greater value.

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