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...plunked down hundreds, even thousands of dollars apiece for computers that turned out to be high-tech white elephants. Owners of low-cost home computers have been particularly hard hit. Among them, they have 2 million Texas Instruments 99/ 4As, 1 million Commodore VIC 20s, 700,000 Timex Sinclair 1000s, 200,000 Coleco Adams, 135,000 Franklin Aces and now at least 250,000 IBM PCjrs--all of them orphans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: A Generation of Orphans | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

...Cambridge, Mass., Texas Instruments micros that retailed for $525 in 1981 could be had for less than $100. Gemco stores in California were selling Commodore 64 computers for $199 each, two-thirds off their price of six months ago. In Chicago, K mart was unloading tiny Timex Sinclair 1000s, listed last year at $99.95, for $29.97 each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Shake-Out in the Hardware Wars | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

Reagan burns 1,000,000s of tax dollars as he kills 1000s of Salvadoran peasants! Henry Ratliff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ratliff File | 3/10/1981 | See Source »

...working relatively hard today--a couple of 1000s--we're not tapering for the race," coach Peter Huntsman said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cliffe Crews Open Season Against B.U. | 4/8/1978 | See Source »

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