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#PC BOYCOTT

    13-Jul-95 13:55:43
Sb: #PC BOYCOTT
Fm: Philippe Desmarais 76504,1216
To: All
3DO's M2 was recently unveiled through press releases and the whole shabang. It so happens that the M2 will be equipped with RISC processing power, 64bit video and 8 MBs of RAM. The machine shoold run you just under 500$. I believe I speak for all PC consumers when I sound the following barbaric yawp: " PC BOYCOTT!!!! " It is time that we stood for our rights as consumers. Prices are out of control on PC equipment. We're dishing out thousands of buckaroos for entry-level equipment when it should be hundreds or less. We fail to notice that if printing Pentium processors costs 25c a pop, we shouldn't be paying over 500$ for 'em!! Who ever heard of 200 000% profit margins without them being illegal?!? You're probably thinking to yourselves " What is there to do against corporations like Big Blue? Picketing alone in front of their headquarters proudly chanting " RAM for the price of HAM! " won't get you anywhere. " Well, you're right. There isn't anything you can do about it. Look at me: All I can do is post a message in a Cserve forum and hope that, through an odd turn of events, 2.32 million people will pick it up and simlutaneously launch the greatest boycott any worlwide market has ever witnessed in the history of man/womankind. So I have only this to say: Bill Gates 1, Five Billion Suckers 0