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- From: U249026@vm.uci.kun.nl (Branko Collin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New slot box Amiga
- Date: Fri, 08 Mar 96 15:00:52 MET
- Organization: K.U. Nijmegen
- Message-ID: <17744D32DS86.U249026@vm.uci.kun.nl>
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- In article <4hmkmk$nv6@alterdial.UU.NET>
- chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall) writes:
-
- >If AT had been paying attention to what we were saying last year, they
- >wouldn't have had the sales problems. Many of us were suggesting that
- >they make some minor updates on the 1200 before they tooled up to make
- >them. There are a number of things that would have been easy for them to
- >add before they tooled up. Things like a 68030, SCSI, keyboard disable
- >jumper w/external keyboard port, etc. Simple things like this wouldn't
- >have been that difficult to add then and would make a big difference in
- >sales in the long run. Also they wouldn't have had to modify the case so
- >existing A1200 users would have been paying good money for the upgraded
- >motherboard.
- >
- >Hopefully the people at AT on here will start listening to us and relay
- >it upstream. If they don't, their products will be more miss than hit,
- >their sales will be low and the Amiga will die.
-
- Whine, whine, whine.
-
- AFAIK know AT have been listening closely. But for every voice that says
- machines have to be high-specced, there are two saying that we need
- machines yesterday and that they shouldn't cost more than US$100,-. And
- of course, most of the whiners feel they should do the above simultaneously.
-
- Well, if it is so easy, why don't you do it yourself? License the Amiga
- technology from Escom and start building high-specced cheap Amiga-clones
- and sell them now.
-
- I don't know what is the right thing to do for AT. If I knew I would
- be a marketing genius and I would be raking in the bucks at this
- moment instead of wasting my time on this forum.
-
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