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- From: thom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Thomas Clancy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The March Amiga?
- Date: 21 Jan 1996 09:05:38 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Message-ID: <4dsvl2$1tv@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
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- On or about 20 Jan 1996 10:01:28 GMT, George Noel (gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) did proclaim:
- ( In article <4djvt7$9vr@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>,
- ( Thomas Clancy <thom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> wrote:
- ( >On or about 16 Jan 1996 09:53:43 GMT, George Noel (gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) did proclaim:
-
- ( More the reason to get a dealer (at least) to do the work as if you shag
- ( it up yourself you are out the computer, the money for repair and
- ( possibly shipping also. We do not have any dealers in town now,
- ( hopefully this will change over the next little while though.
-
- It won't change in this province, and well, it'll still be cost
- prohibitive.
-
- ( So you are saying if the people want to get the newer machine with
- ( improved sound but is not totally compatible and/or doesn't offer any
- ( software taking advantage of the new sound.. yet.. and they don't see
- ( much difference between the Amiga 8 bit and 16 bit sound, then they would
- ( go and buy an Amiga with 8 bit sound? What about these get discontinued
- ( over the next while if the A1200+ (IF it has new audio) takes its place?
-
- Umm. english, please. What I said is thus: Nobody in the right frigg'n
- mind wil pay between 1-4k for a machine that isn;t suppported. Most
- people would readily pay less for sothing that is supported than
- something that "might" be supported. A sure thing is better than a
- "maybe" especially considering C= track record.
-
- ( >And beta was a much superior media than VHS, too. But it didn't really
- ( >survive. You have to give the people what they want, not necessarily
- ( >(sp?) what is "best", to survive.
-
- ( The only reason VHS won out over the much more superior Beta machines was
- ( that it was a cheaper standard that gave almost as good results.. this is
- ( the Amiga of today except VHS machines got advertised a lot more.
-
- Bah! Beta was cost prohibitive! Ditto for the new amigas (if current
- projections are any indication). The 4k and 1.2k are the VHS.
-
-
- ( distribution of software, apart from CD-ROM, still requires floppies to
- ( be distributed cheaply and moving data from many computer types to one
- ( can easily be done via floppies so their importance is still there.
-
- Not so. One can manufacture a "copy" of a CD for much cheaper than they
- can sell 15 or 30 diskettes for a floppy version. As of 3 years ago,
- to master a cd was ~$1500. each copy after that was ~$1.50. Now, factor
- in today's cost. Heck, George, MUN will burn a CD for you free of
- charge if you supply the disc (~13.00CAN) on Kenmount Road =)
-
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