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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Wish I had an Amiga 1500
Message-ID: <7281@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jul 89 16:46:19 GMT
References: <19492@louie.udel.EDU>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <19492@louie.udel.EDU>, OHA101%URIACC.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu (F. Michael Theilig) says:

>      I feel compelled to give my opinion here.  When I was looking at
>  the Amiga, I was looking twords the A500.  Price WAS an object.
>  I hate the A500's style.  It looks like a C128.  

The A500 was done physically as a C128 style computer simply because that's the
lowest cost way to make a computer.  Period.  Anything different is going to
cost more.  The A1000 case was a very expensive sucker to build.  Ever count the
number of pieces in that case, or the number of screws used once you get the
thing apart.  The point of the A500 was to make the lowest cost Amiga possible;
after all, that's at least the kind of computer Commodore's traditionally been
able to sell, and we were at the point where, if the "new thing" didn't sell
well, they might as well have "brought in the bombers and leveled this place",
to paraphrase the head honcho back then.  

The A1000 case is _nice_, no question about that.  I still have my A1000, even
though I use the A2000 most of the time.  But even with A500 guts, the A1000
would still be too pricey for the features it provides.  Perhaps there's room
for something between the 500 and the 2000; that's something only the marketing
folks can say for certain.  But I'm convinced an A500 in an A1000 case isn't
the machine you're looking for there; it would have to have some slots.

>      /*   F. Michael Theilig               OHA101 at URIACC.Bitnet
> 
>                "There is no Dark Side of the Moon...
>                                      in fact it is all dark."          */
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