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From: theobaby@well.UUCP (Paul Theodoropoulos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: I've had it with CBM!
Message-ID: <15609@well.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 90 19:16:38 GMT
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Commodore stock continues to wallow about in the neighborhood of 8-9 bucks
a share. Advertising is but a faded memory since xmas. Apple continues to 
garner huge amounts of newsprint over this or that breakthrough technology
(such as the new GTV multimedia thingie, that runs on a stinking AppleIIGS
of all machines!)
 
I've owned my Amiga 1000 since early 1986. It has grown into a computing
powerhouse, running with an 030 and 881 at 14 and 20 Mc. In the coming
weeks, it will be modified to run at 40 Mc. Outside of a Sun Sparcstation
(at twice the investment in hardware), Nothing comes close!
 
Yet here it is, 1990, and the Amiga, the computer that broke new ground
five years ago with a multitasking O.S., a multiprocessing CPU, an astonishing
(at that time) complement of graphic and sound capabilities, this 
extraordinary machine is now sold primarily to pimply teenagers as an 
alternative to Nintendo.
 
I'm sick of it! If slime bags like Ivan Boesky and T. Boone Pickens can
buy out massive corporations with little more than a slick come on and 
plenty of chutzpah, then an alliance of Amiga users can come together and
BUY AMIGA from the schmucks who own it now. Who needs cash? Junk bonds seem
to be all that are needed these days.
 
It seems to me that there must be Amiga users out there who agree with me, and
who would know the whats and wheres to make something like this come about.

 
Otherwise? Plan on seeing your machine become as obsolete as a Bowmar Brain
by the end of 1990. (for the benefit of the aforementioned pimply faced teens
out there, the Bowmar Brain was the first pocket calculator to hit it big time,
and it turned into a dinosaur within about a year and a half. It could:
add
subtract
multiply
divide. All for about $175.)
 
Paul Theodoropoulos         theobaby@well.UUCP