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- From: Gemini2@cup.portal.com (Gary Alan Peake)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New slot box Amiga
- Date: 18 Mar 1996 20:00:06 -0800
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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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,
- >
- >BM
-
- I just took a tour thru ComPaq Works. I saw something really funny there.
- They had poor old (now) 486-66 systems on sale as well the new Presario
- stuff that reaked of 'heavy dollars'.
-
- What is wrong with having BOTH in the Amiga world? Why can't both ECS and
- AGA users, players and power users, the barely can's and the always can's
- have everything we all want? Build a base system and let the users decide
- how 'expensive' they are willing to let their systems be.
-
-
- Gary Peake "Mystic Meg" Fellow AMIGA Users:
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