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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MultiMedia Applications
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Date: 5 Sep 89 13:20:12 GMT
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In <124185@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, jcb@frisbee.Sun.COM (Jim Becker) writes:
>	I was working on, and demoing, a multimedia system that used
>the Amiga and Genlocked videodisk with my product InfoMinder. There

Yeah, I remember InfoMinder. That was the one with no freely distributable
reader, marketed by a company that would rather spend time whining about the
harm being done to them by the critics who pointed this out to them than to
answer those criticisms with action. They did the same thing with the Pal box,
ignoring those that told them it was too high priced for the market, and
grumbling that people didn't appreciate the quality.

>	I am *not* interested in lots of flames over this, it is my
>impression of CBM as of two to four years ago (85-87). They may be
>better now, but I am no longer interested in promoting their products.

Don't take this as a flame against you, personally, but rather as an airing of
one of my pet peeves about a product that I wanted to see succeed, and watched
while it was driven into the ground by a lack of monney on CBM's part and a
deaf ear on the part of the people who were marketing it.

I don't think you can reasonably lay all the blame at Commodore's feet.

-larry

--
The Mac? Oh, that's just like a computer, only slower.
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