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To: John Koligman who wrote (176214)	10/15/2009 1:26:27 PM
From: stock bull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Hi John, Re: <<It's amazing when one looks back, in 2001 I bought a Dell workstation for trading that had a 1GHZ Pentium processor and 256MB of RDRAM. It did have a custom quad monitor Matrox G200 MMS video card, but the price for the box and 4 17" LCDS ($1100 each back then) was over 7K. Now I can buy way more power AND new LCD's for around $1700!>> So very true. It's always amazed me how the computer, and related electronic products just get more and more computing power at lower and lower prices. I spent my career in the computer industry. Started out in engineering and then moved up the management ladder. I had the privilege of working on one of the first computers that incorporated the integrated circuit. This was in the days before Intel was started. So, I've seen many changes and experienced the velocity of the change. Just an amazing experience. As far as the tech support experience is concerned, I'm not sure what the answer is. Profits keep getting smaller and smaller. Yet, there's such a wide range of computer buyers, from the "grandma" to the "techie". The techie can usually provide their own support, but not the grandma and the rest of the non-techies. So, this is a tough problem to solve. Stock Bull