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- From: sathomas@athena.mit.edu (Stephen A Thomas)
- Subject: Re: Falcon MC vs Hellcats & Falcon 3.0 (IBM)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.174624.8988@athena.mit.edu>
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- Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:46:24 GMT
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- Robert, I beg to differ.
-
- The "mass" market is NOT just crammed full of LCs - it's all those people out
- there who don't give a damn about upgrading because it's too expensive and are
- still using Pluses, SEs, SE-30s, etc which have the cruddy 9" B&W monitor. I
- work in a very technical field (Aeronautics) where almost everyone has a personal
- computer at home (suprisingly most own MACs) and out of the 15 people I know with
- MACs (all graduate students) I am the only one with a color computer. Obviously
- the boss won't let us play games on the color computers at work, so who's going
- to buy color games besides me? Is this typical, I don't know but it is what I
- have to go on. I also read (as of November) that the most common MAC out there
- is the SE.
-
- Now younger college students are big pirates for sure, but it seems that the older
- they get (and closer to getting a job) they seem to realize that pirating is
- costing someone a job. As a graduate student (and there are a number of us out
- here) I won't pirate and most of my friends with computers won't either. I think
- it is a big cop out to say you won't make a game because college students will
- pirate it. You also have to be joking if you say the major market for games out
- there are 40 year old business executives who like head to head flight simulators
- - get real - how many people like that that you know have time for a flight
- simulator or any game except golf? So who buys the games? - those "pirates"
- that's who. I'm tired of everyone around here knocking college students and
- putting them down as a market (they steal stuff, they have no standards, they're
- too poor) a few jerks out there act like that, the rest of us work hard, save our
- money so we can spend it on some decent entertainment (ie computer games). And
- don't forget, we college students will someday be that "mass-market" you speak
- of, so why piss us off? But I forget, we're in the yuppie world of making a fast
- buck.
-
- As to Hellcats flying torpedos, maybe you should read fewer manuals and ask more
- questions. I asked a old family friend who was an ordinance officer (or
- something like that) in the Navy during WWII whether a Hellcat could lift a
- torpedo. His answer was "not if you want it to get off the deck." Being an
- aeronautical engineer this is easy to understand - often payloads are specified
- which the plane in actual service could never lift off the ground. Also don't
- forget that a torpedo is a little more than 1000lb, try around 2000lb.
-