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- From: innuendo@execpc.com (Jonathan Gapen)
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- Subject: Re: Walker = 1970's 8-Track Player
- Date: 18 Mar 1996 02:57:25 GMT
- Organization: esCom Amiga Madison Enthusiast's Organisation
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- In article <4ihnr0$sp6@nntp.interaccess.com> bjp@psycfrnd.interaccess.com (J. Poag) writes:
- >
- > Now I *KNOW* going PC was the right thing..
-
- So get out of here! Beat it! Scram! It's obvious that using that PC has
- already screwed with your brain. To wit:
-
- > "I agree--We should save money as much as we can. How else can we
- > reduce costs for the new machine?"
- >
- > "We can use old 1988 1MB Agnus chips in the new machine!"
-
- All the information on this new machine says it has AGA. Agnus is not AGA.
- Agnus will not work with AGA. The new machine will have an Alice chip.
-
- > "We can also continue to ship our Amiga 4000T's with 880K drives.."
-
- Well, you know the alternative. They could have delayed shipping the
- machines and added quite a bit to their cost by trying to find some drive
- maker to build the custom floppy drives. The new Project Walker machine fixes
- that problem with an off-the-shelf PC floppy controller chip, so we get HD
- floppies back, at full speed.
- How about giving them a little credit for that?
-
- > "My uncle Adolf has a whole closet full of 8-track casette players from
- > the 1970's he bought in an auction for a 2 DM.. There must be a dozen
- > or so in there! How about we take the 8-track players out, put in
- > an old A500 motherboard, and call it WALKER! Its GREAT!"
-
- Again, the information on this new machine says it will have AGA. To my
- knowledge, Commodore never shipped an A500 with AGA, a 40MHz 68ec030, or such
- a flexible expansion slot in the middle of the motherboard. I'll buy a PC, if
- you can prove otherwise.
-
- > Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined Amiga Tech could have
- > outright screwed the pooch this badly -- Their idea of re-entering
- > the market with a sad looking dung-beetle hack-in-the-box, which
- > doesn't even look like a COMPUTER for gods sake..but an 8-track
- > casette player?! Jeeeezus Christ!
-
- Two words: Sour grapes.
-
- --
- Jonathan Gapen (innuendo@execpc.com)
- Bread in, toast out. How does it DO that?
-