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- From: Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike)
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- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 16 Mar 96 13:39:29 +0000
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- Hi, Charles E Taylor IV , on 14-Mar-96 13:53:54 you scribbled....
- >In article <4i7omm$5p2@nyheter.chalmers.se> d3daniel@dtek.chalmers.se (Daniel
- >Hansson) writes:
- >:Rand R. Fredricksen (rand@maui.netwave.net) wrote:
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- >:: Let's face it. Commodore made their money by producing low-cost computers,
- >:: and selling them to hobbyists.
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- >:This is most certainly a strange myth constructed the latest years.
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- >:When C= sold somputers, and sold lots of them, they sold the coolest
- >:computer
- >:(a resonable amount of) money could buy. The Amiga was more expensive than
- >:the ST, but was more impressive. People chose the cool one and decided to
- >:spen ~20% more.
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- >When C= sold a lot of Amigas, they were A500s. A500's competed with PC's
- >and Mac's fairly favorably, especially in price. Atari ST's were
- >relatively hard to find in the places I lived in when I bought my first 500
- >in
- >1987. Revisionist history? No. I bought my 500 for 2 reasons:
-
- >(1) Price/Performance
- >(2) Marble Madness
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- heh, me it was:
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- 1. Interceptor (still fun after all these years, and on my A4000))
- 2. Dpaint (who has an amiga and has never used it?)
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- both of these were unmatched really at the time.
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- Compare this with
- Doom selling PCs
- Wipeout selling Playstations
- Sega Rally selling saturns
-
- (play "spot the pc owner who hasnt got doom on his HD" :0 )
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- I don't think price is the issue so much as what "KILLER GAMES or APPS" it
- runs...
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- Mike
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