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- From: cdodd@super.win.or.jp (Chris Dodd)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The March Amiga?
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 15:28:15 GMT
- Organization: "Internet WIN, Tokyo,JAPAN"
- Message-ID: <4fl4dv$du3@super.win.or.jp>
- References: <19960127.7D8A918.72E2@obscurity.pd.mcs.net> <4eq3g1$9p9@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <823173850.15358@hchworth.demon.co.uk> <4fb9hn$f0u@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
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- gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel) wrote:
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- >In article <823173850.15358@hchworth.demon.co.uk>, Paul Chan <paul> wrote:
- >>gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel) wrote:
- >>
- >>[snips]
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- >>>into North America full force. This also gives them a chance to gain
- >>>capital moreso then they would get in North America right now.
- >>
- >>At the expense of European users who are charged exorbitant prices? I would
- >>hope that AT are ignoring the A1200 for NA and go with the A1200Plus instead. I
- >>know I`m not in the US to comment on this, but that`s what I would do.
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- >The startup production cost of the A1200 is unfortunate but neccessary,
- >let's hope sales in the UK will pick up when the price drops. If the
- >A1200 Surfer is still too high priced then maybe people would be willing
- >to buy the package seperately when it comes out.
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- >I too would put more enphasis on the A1300 in the US then the A1200 but
- >the A1200 is the only model so far that has a Surfer Package connected
- >with it.
-
- >>>...Sometimes a new change is needed and so
- >>>far it is working ok, this company responsible for the OS coding might
- >>>bring us some nice surprises in the future.
- >>
- >>I hope they do.
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- >Like I said before, I thought OS development would be inside AT and only
- >hardware development would be done outside?
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- >>The only thing is that the A1200 looks like a toy, and in some ways, is powered
- >>like a toy... :(
-
- >It looks like an enhanced C64c :) A toy? I don't think so, I think it
- >looks much better then most of the "boxed" PCs out there which are huge!
-
- Sorry, just had ONE quibble with the last one. I have a 1200 and a
- pentium (a fujitsu i bought here in japan). The a1200 keyboard
- totally sucks in my opinion, if a student or such buys it(like me), it
- really is not so great if you are going to type papers and all.
-
- Chris
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- Chris Dodd
- cdodd@super.win.or.jp
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- Passing my senior year at Waseda University in Japan.
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