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Page 103
... dollars by 1987 . The most popular variety of home software to date has been games . One category , first cousin to ... dollars . Simpler ones , which take virtually no time to set up , might cost only thirty or forty dollars . The ...
... dollars by 1987 . The most popular variety of home software to date has been games . One category , first cousin to ... dollars . Simpler ones , which take virtually no time to set up , might cost only thirty or forty dollars . The ...
Page 111
... dollars for hardware would expect to pay more than a few hundred dollars for any one program . Yet if programs were to be so cheap , they no longer could be sold in the tradi- tional way , with sales representatives and programmers ...
... dollars for hardware would expect to pay more than a few hundred dollars for any one program . Yet if programs were to be so cheap , they no longer could be sold in the tradi- tional way , with sales representatives and programmers ...
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... dollars . In 1984 - partly because the pro- grams had grown more complex and ambitious , partly be- cause the bidding among publishers for successful software authors had intensified - the average initial cost was ex- pected to be ...
... dollars . In 1984 - partly because the pro- grams had grown more complex and ambitious , partly be- cause the bidding among publishers for successful software authors had intensified - the average initial cost was ex- pected to be ...
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