"Regal" = "Legal"

Sheesh. 14 year of living in South Korea, and I come back typing with an accent! Bloody Hell!

Though I guess you knew what I meant..

LOL, yeah I figured it out. I didn't figure you were talking about
royality there, so I figured it was a typo. :D


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Rug Rat wrote to Mike Powell <=-

"Regal" = "Legal"

Sheesh. 14 year of living in South Korea, and I come back typing with
an accent! Bloody Hell!

Back in the '90s, I had a caller who used an Amiga. Hardware wasn't
cheap, and he was on a limited budget. His "S" key stopped working, so
until he got a new keyboard, he typed with a lisp.



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On Tue 29-Jul-2025 10:49a, Kurt Weiske@1:218/700.0 said to Rug Rat:

Back in the '90s, I had a caller who used an Amiga. Hardware wasn't
cheap, and he was on a limited budget. His "S" key stopped working, so until he got a new keyboard, he typed with a lisp.

If you think hardware wasn't cheap in the 90's, you should see what the prices are for Amiga hardware NOW! Thank God for emulation....

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"Regal" = "Legal"

Sheesh. 14 year of living in South Korea, and I come back typing with an

>> accent! Bloody Hell!

Though I guess you knew what I meant..

LOL, yeah I figured it out. I didn't figure you were talking about

>royality there, so I figured it was a typo. :D

That was a rather clever quip I thought, although I wondered at
the time how many readers might have missed it.. B)

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Sheesh. 14 year of living in South Korea, and I come back typing with
an accent! Bloody Hell!

Back in the '90s, I had a caller who used an Amiga. Hardware wasn't

>cheap, and he was on a limited budget. His "S" key stopped working, so
>until he got a new keyboard, he typed with a lisp.

You mean a 'lithp'... B)

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Back in the '90s, I had a caller who used an Amiga. Hardware wasn't
cheap, and he was on a limited budget.

If you think hardware wasn't cheap in the 90's, you should see what the price

>re for Amiga hardware NOW! Thank God for emulation....

I was buying decent used cars cheaper than the cheapest computers back in
those years so I think it was a little worse at that time, although I'm probably thinking more the mid to late 80's when I first got into them..

Recently I paid less than half as much for a new laptop as I had
to pay for a floppy drive back then.

That's not allowing for inflation either so instead of Double it
should probably be more like 5 or 6 times as much.

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Rob Mccart wrote to RUG RAT <=-

I was buying decent used cars cheaper than the cheapest computers back
in those years so I think it was a little worse at that time, although
I'm probably thinking more the mid to late 80's when I first got into them..

I always felt like market forces drove computers to certain price
points. You'd have a basic PC for $500, a high-end PC for twice that,
and add on more for a gaming PC. As PCs got faster/better, the prices
stayed the same but the power increased.

Chromebooks changed the landscape quite a bit, driving the low-end down.



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On Thu 31-Jul-2025 9:12a, Rob Mccart@1:2320/105.0 said to Rug Rat:

Recently I paid less than half as much for a new laptop as I had
to pay for a floppy drive back then.

I was referring specifically to used Amiga Hardware or some of the more niche Commodore 64/128 hardware.

The prices on Evil Bay can be extremely unreasonable, but at least we have decent emulation.

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I was buying decent used cars cheaper than the cheapest computers back
in those years so I think it was a little worse at that time, although
I'm probably thinking more the mid to late 80's when I first got into them..

I always felt like market forces drove computers to certain price

>points. You'd have a basic PC for $500, a high-end PC for twice that,
>and add on more for a gaming PC. As PCs got faster/better, the prices
>stayed the same but the power increased.

Market does pretty much control the price of everything..
I think the manufacturing cost difference between those types of
computers though is not near as much as the pricing suggests.

Supply and demand has a big impact, plus people wanting the newest,
fastest, coolest gaming system and being willing to pay a premium
to be the first on their block to have one. That's much like whan
a new Apple Phone comes out and people are paying almost $3000 for
one, but a year later they are probably half that price, and I doubt
Apple is losing any money on them then..

Chromebooks changed the landscape quite a bit, driving the low-end down.

The main thing about Chromebooks is you don't pay the high fee that
Microsoft charges for the Windows OS.. By that I mean that the price
difference is a software issue rather than a hardware issue.

Along those lines though.. My newest Laptop, not the one I use very
much, I bought on a year end sale where it was so cheap I couldn't
resist having it as a backup for when my Windows 7 Laptop either
dies or the OS gets too old to function well.. the same reason I
had this Windows 7 computer sitting for some time waiting for my
old Windows 98 system to become mostly unusable.

In both of those cases I bought them for quite a bit less than half
the price they were selling for when 'new'..

My other advantage is I don't need high end systems. I mostly run
old software (games and such) and do simpler things online so I
don't need super fast systems with tons of RAM.. Those computers
start off cheap and seem to drop even more than others later.

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I was referring specifically to used Amiga Hardware or some of the more niche

>mmodore 64/128 hardware.

I see.. I almost bought a Commodore 64 as my fist computer but just
before I did I ran into an old friend who told me I could buy parts
to build an Apple II Clone computer for about half the price, so I
ended up actually building my very first computer.. (1983)
This was before I'd ever touched a computer. I knew I wanted to
get into them but hadn't had the chance yet.

I even made a point of not buying a Floppy Drive at first so that
I wouldn't get involved playing games and such before learning the
computer inside-out and how to write software. I had a tape drive
on it to save any programs I wrote and, if I wanted to play games,
I had to write them myself, sometimes from scratch and sometimes
I'd buy a book with a program in it to copy out and, once I got it
running, I usually found ways to make my version work better than
the original.. B)

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