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- Path: coranto.ucs.mun.ca!gnoel
- From: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AmiTech Press Release on 1200 Surfer
- Date: 11 Jan 1996 16:47:33 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Message-ID: <4d3ev5$ums@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- References: <19960108.7788AD0.F11C@obscurity.pd.mcs.net>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Summary: Team Amiga crap
- Keywords: Don't deserve it!
-
- In article <19960108.7788AD0.F11C@obscurity.pd.mcs.net>,
- Eric Szulczewski <ejszul@obscurity.pd.mcs.net> wrote:
- >
- >In a message dated 01-02-96 02-01 Wells Fargo Bank writes:
- >
- >WB> Eric Szulczewski (ejszul@obscurity.pd.mcs.net) wrote:
- >
- >WB> : We can only hope that the web browser will be Netscape-compatible (and
- >WB> : that they're working on the Java version). However, that isn't the
- >WB> : biggest problem with the package. The biggest problem: the browser
- >WB> : package is coming attached to a 1200, one of the biggest pieces of crap
- >WB> : C= ever came up with.
- >
- >WB> While your welcome to your opinion, I belive that the A1200 was a great
- >WB> machine (outdated now, granted).
- >
- >I don't. The 1200 was a great deal harder to expand than the 500 was.
- >PCMCIA might have been a good idea, but the implementation was flawed.
- >And by the time it came out, AGA was already outdated. Better than
- >ECS, admittedly, but still deficient. Also, it lacked that killer
- >piece of software that would make everyone run out and get one, if they
- >could find a 1200, that is, because by this time C= had entered the
- >marketing doldrums.
- >
- >WB> On the other hand, most seem to agree
- >WB> that Commodore decision of making the A600 was the biggest pieces of crap,
- >WB> as you so elegantly put it, C= ever came up with.
- >
- >Not really. The 600 was the BIGGEST piece of crap C= ever came up
- >with. The 1200 is second, but far below the 600 on the crap scale.
- >And it's made even worse by all the inside knowledge that people like
- >Dave Haynie have revealed about the creation of the 600.
- >
- >WB> It would be nice if the next A1200 variant had a detachable keyboard and
- >WB> was housed in a super-mini tower. Sounds 'cute' and low cost.
- >
- >Either mini-tower or pizza box would be acceptable. Something that's
- >low-cost yet looks like a real computer, and is easily expandable.
- >That would help its rep tremendously.
- >
- >Eric Szulczewski
- >ejszul@obscurity.pd.mcs.net
- >Member, Team AMIGA
-
- You should be ashamed to display "Team Amiga" under your name with the
- comments you have. Admittedly the A600 was a waste of time, but the
- A1200 was not crap.. it was the next generation Amiga whether it kept up
- with the jones' or not, it offered Amiga users something more to look
- forward to.
-
- -=*George*=-
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