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- From: phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin)
- Subject: Re: The "high price" of the HP48!
- In-Reply-To: clemon@lemsys.UUCP's message of Fri, 01 Jan 1993 17:12:07 EST
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- References: <PHR.92Dec25155736@napa.telebit.com> <1992Dec26.052935.17881@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
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- <1992Dec31.180319.8567@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <DN3es*z40@lemsys.UUCP>
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 06:30:52 GMT
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- In article <DN3es*z40@lemsys.UUCP> clemon@lemsys.UUCP (Craig Lemon VE3XCL) writes:
-
- 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.
-
- I think minimum wage in the US is lower than this in most states
- (we're a less developed nation than Canada). On the other hand, "take
- home pay" means after taxes.
-
- The real pain is that if you are a student with a $4/hr (take home pay)
- job, you are probably working as many hours as you possibly can and
- barely meeting your expenses. Thus, $275 doesn't represent "70 hours
- of work", but rather, several MONTHS of your discretionary income.
- (I dropped out of school because of this phenomenon, and worked full
- time until I'd saved up enough to go back and finish).
-