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- From: clemon@lemsys.UUCP (Craig Lemon VE3XCL)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp48
- Subject: Re: The "high price" of the HP48!
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- Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 17:12:07 EST
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- In article <1992Dec31.180319.8567@doug.cae.wisc.edu>, Joel Kolstad writes:
-
- > Letsee... a HP-48 is $275. Let's say you're making $4 an hour take home
- > pay... that's 70 hours of work for the 48. I think my 48 has saved _me_ 70
- > hours of work over the past three years, and I think they can for other
- > people as well.
-
- Of course, keeping in mind that there is also the HP-48S as well.
- I'm not sure about down in the U.S. but in Canada our minimum wage is
- ~$6CAN, that has to be taken into account as well (University co-op student
- make more than that usually, often quite a bit). Food for thought.
-
- >
- > Owning a house right now would be nice, but the kind that I'd want to own
- > would probably end up costing me more in property taxes than what I pay for
- > housing right now. Owning one also wouldn't save me any time.
- >
- > ---Joel Kolstad
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