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- On Fri, 12 Apr 1996, Dave Haynie wrote:
-
- > Now, a company that's interested in the set top market could do much
- > worse than to sell a personal computer that's a realated
- > technology. After all, that means you can run such personal computer
- > stuff on an expanded set top, or receive DTV on an expanded personal
- > computer. That makes each more valuable than the unrelated
- > versions. It may give you a place to sell some advanced set top
- > technologies before they the price necessary for set top
- > installations.
- >
- > Anyway, it's not a bad fit, and it makes plenty of logical
- > sense. Now, I know better than to resort to logic when discussing
- > business and computers, but until there's more information, that's
- > something to go on. At the least, no reason to panic, this may be a
- > good thing.
- > Dave Haynie | ex-Commodore Engineering | for DiskSalv 3 &
- > Sr. Systems Engineer | Hardwired Media Company | "The Deathbed Vigil"
- > Scala Inc., US R&D | Ki No Kawa Aikido | info@iam.com
-
- Some good sense being spoken here and very exciting possibilities
- appearing on the horizon. We must realize that computing is not a
- static process and that sometimes technology takes unexpected, even
- disturbing turns, but it doesn't exist in a vacuum. Inter-activity
- and such like developments might in fact lead us to one of the
- ultimate goals of computing, that of helping us manage our resources
- better, individually and culturally and create the kind of planetary
- civilization that is within our grasp if only we stopped goofing
- around with out-dated racial-nationalistic and other crippling concepts
- that stop us from seing the "big picture", that of our mortality
- and consequent relative short stay in this amazing place called earth.
- For me at least, the AMIGA and all that sailed and still sail on her,
- is the perfect example of a more than excellent vessel,fast and
- manouverable, practically unsinkable, with a good crew, having fallen in
- the hands of first greedy than uninsipred owners who put her on
- stultifying, unprofitable runs any other, slower vessel could
- have undertaken, and yet is still seaworthy, waiting for the right
- Captain to prize her away to the great "privateer" adventures she
- was build for. A case of "horses for courses". I am sure Carl
- Sassenrath and the people at VISCorp know they're dealing with a
- thouroughbred and not a workhorse.
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- Giorgio Gomelsky A C A D E M Y "Lest we have
- AMUSE-New York Amiga I N to do it
- Users Group P E R I L all over
- Producer AMUSE-TV Founder member IAS again"
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