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To: Paul Engel who wrote (86873)	8/14/1999 10:39:00 AM
From: Burt Masnick	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul and all - Saw my first add for an Athlon 650 MHz PC. No brand name at all - but 256 Meg Ram, 20 Gig Hard Drive R-W CD, 19" Monitor - Priced at $1499. No mention of the Athlon name but 200 MHz bus means Athlon to me. Placed in a sea of other adds featuring mostly Pentium III machines from IBM, Compaq, ACER, etc. Athlon machine was the most expensive one on the page. I have to assume that since there was an add in todays paper the machine is available. Regards, Burt

To: Paul Engel who wrote (86873)	8/14/1999 11:35:00 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: did you happen to get a chance to look at the pictures I'm pretty sure you were just kidding, but in case you weren't: Colors are often different when first run, different language, boxes are printed, The Athlons were displayed in exactly the way the Intel tray (not boxed) cartridges are displayed - are you telling me that Pentium 600s don't exist? I agree with you that it's not the ideal way to store these things, but if you have any experience at all with cpus, you know that this is the way they are often treated, and it doesn't seem to hurt them. I build my home PCs from components that I buy from local retailers. It's fun to put them together and design it exactly the way that I want. Ever visit a white box retailer? You should, evidently you would learn quite a lot. CPUs, motherboards, and disk drives are generally displayed in a glass case - loose, like in the picture. The difference in Japan is they don't seem to be worried about shoplifting, so they don't use the glass case. Dan