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- From: caw@loon.informatik.hab-weimar.de (Charles A. Wuethrich)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Walker = 1970's 8-Track Player
- Date: 19 Mar 1996 14:49:18 GMT
- Organization: HAB, Weimar, Germany
- Message-ID: <4imhhe$cl7@tigger.HRZ.HAB-Weimar.DE>
- References: <4iijel$aif@daily-planet.execpc.com> <DoGn0o.6Bv@cix.compulink.co.uk> <827225289.17431@hchworth.demon.co.uk>
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- In article <827225289.17431@hchworth.demon.co.uk>, Paul Chan <paul> wrote:
- >The external case of the walker is a travesty though. I`ll take bland beige and
- >boxy over this design. It`s not Bohemian, it`s just Bad. They could have taken
- >a leaf out of the SGI book and cashed in the the awesome looks of some of those
- >machines (especially the Onyx and Indigo) or they could have gone for the more
- >retarined SunWorkstation look. Instead, we Amigans have started to slag off the
- >design by calling it "vacuum cleaner" and "dung beetle" before the Mac and PC
- >users even get a look in. Come on AT, get real, what happened to that picture
- >of the mini-tower Amiga way back at the start?
-
- Well, having taken a look at it, I could not help thinking that it
- looks like back of a sliced dinosaur. I really hope they
- hire someone better for designing the case. This machine won't
- sell in its current design. Almost as bad as Colani designs.
-
- Regards
-
- Charles
-
-
-
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- C.A. Wuethrich, Graphische Datenverarbeitung, HAB-Weimar, Germany
- caw@informatik.hab-weimar.de
- "Waiting for tomorrow, just another day" (The Police)
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