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To: Katherine Derbyshire who wrote (22143)	7/24/1998 2:13:00 PM
From: Ramsey Su	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

Katherine, thanks for the scoop. Never connected you to the website so I am glad you mentioned it. Now I even have a picture of who I am "talking" to. I think Moore's Law is seriously challenged, just like the price of the "standard" PC. The first PC that I ever owned was a 64K CPM machine with a couple of frisbee size disk drives. That cost me around $2500 plus $500 for a dot matrix printer. Every subsequent upgrade had been in the same price range. They are, needless to say, progressively more powerful in line with Gordon's projections. Now the AUP is finally tumbling and fast. I saw an IBM Aptiva 266 ad for $999 including a 15" monitor and a Lexmark printer. How many of us really need a MMXXX444 super dooper machine? By the way, on the subject of IBM, I just wonder how it can stay up there given the news affecting HWP, CA, GTW etc. IBM has to be in the same boat. Ramsey