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Article: Price Increases on Apple Computers, Components Have Users Howling
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 26, 1988
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Computer users have been spoiled. Even while the cost of living
rises, the cost of computing generally falls steadily, due to new
technology, production improvements and increased competition. If
only cars and houses were like computers.
Unfortunately, the trend of ever-declining computer prices has
been blunted recently by tight supplies of dynamic random access
memory, or DRAM, chips that enable computers to process information.
Worse yet, Apple Computer Inc. on Sept. 12 announced big price
increases on its computers, the Cupertino-based company's first price
hikes ever on products already in the marketplace. Prices also were
boosted on laser printers, monitors, disk drives and other ...