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To: hpeace who wrote (9947)	12/2/1997 12:45:00 AM
From: Jack T. Pearson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

Steve, "...biggest drive on the low cost is the lower income and the middle income families want to make sure their kids have great computer skills." Do you have market survey data or is this a deduction based on your personal experience? I sold encyclopedias one summer a few decades ago. The easiest way to make the sale was to appeal to the parents hopes and dreams for their kid's future. In constant dollars, computers today cost less than those encyclopedias did then. Bet you could sell computers door-to-door today. Especially this time of year and on a monthly payment plan. Jack

To: hpeace who wrote (9947)	12/2/1997 7:46:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Steve, re if you don't have kids that have a pc then you will never understand this. You aren't a single mom or dad or struggling couple who wnats their kids to succeed so this is way over your head and it's a shame you can't understand this. You could run for congress, you have the first trait down pat...cannot see where real people live. You're making a helluva lot of assumptions there. Where did you get these ideas? I understand families quite well. I have 8 brothers and sisters, and 29 nieces and nephews. Between my parents and the 9 sons & daughters, 8 households have home PCs, and 7 households have e-mail. One of my sisters' households has 4 PCs and a P233 laptop. Re saturation will be p to 48% soon and then to 60% w/i yrs. Maybe you read my post a couple of days ago, where I said I believed that the US penetration rate will probably go to 50% or higher with the current systems for sale on the market. I'm not really sure where you think I'm wrong. DK