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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The March Amiga?
- Date: 4 Jan 1996 16:21:02 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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- James McArthur (jamesm@turtle.apana.org.au) wrote:
- : Because low end systems are supposed to be cheap.. add the box, a few
- : connectors, some more ships, and the price goes up, up, up, and the
- : marketing types say "No! Its too expensive, no-one will buy that.."
-
- You know what would be nice? If the motherboard of the machines would fit into
- standard PC cases. Whatever the costs it incurrs AT to include tower style
- cases (shipping costs/packaging etc) they can be bought very inexpensively.
- Wrap plastic around such a motherboard to reduce the cost if you must but it
- should be able to plug into a PC tower without resorting to duct tape and glue
- guns. :)
-
- : Then paint your computer another colour.. Personally, the colour of a
- : computer has no bearing on my decision to buy another one.
-
- Agreed, nor is what the thing is called. A name is for identification purposes
- only really. There is the problem in NA of what the name "amiga" identifies
- however and a name change for that purpose wouldn't go amiss.
-
- Regards,
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- BM
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