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Old 04-10-2012, 09:48 PM   #50
SteveEisenberg
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Originally Posted by Pinecone View Post
In the 1980s through the mid to late 90s, the price of a computer system was about $5000.
In the late nineties, you could, and I did, get most of the parts needed to build your own PC for free after rebate.

The several computers in that class, which I built, are indeed obsolete, if only because of the need for a modern browser, and I have trashed them. However, for other purposes, such as word processing and spreadsheets, they were fine. My wife and I were saying that we actually preferred the even older Apple II line for word processing, due to simplicity.

6 inch eReaders will remain fine for reading long texts, and are small enough that I won't need to trash them in favor of more flexible devices. I don't see any reason why the Kindle 1-3 will become obsolete, any more than paper books will become obsolete.

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