Wang 300 Calc

[Liam Proven]

On 11/09/2007, Gordon JC Pearce <gordon at gjcp.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 September 2007 14:27:57 Liam Proven wrote:
>
> > If you're seriously proposing shipping cases with /no/ labelling and a
> > sheet of DIY labels, you're either deranged or very stupid, and either
> > way, it's not worth trying to reason with you.
>
> And yet I have a Microvax with the buttons labelled in English, and tucked
> away in a little envelope inside the case a sheet of near-identical sticky
> plastic labels just like the one on the front, but in various other
> languages.  One of the labels is missing, presumably the English one on the
> front panel.

The thing is, how big was the profit margin on a MicroVAX compared to
a modern £300 PC?

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