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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New slot box Amiga
- Date: 15 Mar 1996 14:05:38 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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- Chris Hall (chall@clover.cleaf.com) wrote:
- : 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
-
- Hmm.
-
- : 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.
-
- Of course this applies only to existing owners of amigas.
-
- : 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.
-
- Their sales may end up being low regardless of what they read here. I'd say
- work on porting the os as fast as you can. If AT listens to ecs users
- nothing will ever change yet if they listen to aga users/graphics card users
- they won't be able to sell a cheap machine.
-
- Regards,
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- BM
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