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- From: Jeff Grimmett <jgrimm@bitnova.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Walker case?
- Date: 19 Mar 1996 18:58:10 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company
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- dgentry@vlsi4.racal.com (Dave Gentry) wrote:
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- >Yes! They need to market the machine in a standard case, and have the
- >black beetle thing as an optional case for those eccentric people who
- >actually like its looks. That thing looks like it was designed by
- >Daihatsu. Sure, it'll get a few extra stares in a computer store
- >(anyone think they'll ever see any amigas in CompUSA or Computer
- >City?), but they probably won't take it seriously.
- >
- >Just a thought...
-
- Let me add one more thought, though: the hardest part of selling anything
- is to get the customer to actually stop and LOOK. They'll rarely
- consider an Amiga if it's in a samo-samo case, because they didn't even
- know it was more than just-another-clone.
-
- I haven't formed one opinion or another on this design, though, since
- every server that's had the pic up for viewing has been slower than
- George Burns on a cold day.
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