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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
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Subject: Re: Amiga Rebirth?
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Date: 28 Mar 90 06:32:07 GMT
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In article <15187@snow-white.udel.EDU> BARRETT%FOREST.ECIL.IASTATE.EDU@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Marc Barrett) writes:
>
>drive, and stereo sound.  Commodore needs to produce a brand new
>machine which would be a quantum leap above all of these areas :
>millions of colors, a read/write optical disk, and 16-bit stereo
>sound.

	Actually, this message isn't intended as a flame, not really.
In the usual head-in-the-sand/ignorance of reality trash Marc usually
espouses, there is one important point: a read/write optical disk. I
think it worth noting that at AmiExpo DC, Active Circuits (makers of
ImageLink which connects Amiga to Targa, etc.) displayed a Sony 650MB
(I believe, something in that large range) r/w opti. It was connected
using their hardware/software and lists for $5,000. Not cheap, I know.
I have no idea what it will realistically sell for. If I remember
correctly there was someone from Sony hanging around.
	-- Ethan

Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu

"If Commodore had to market sushi they'd call it `raw cold fish'"
		-- The Bandito, inevitably stolen from someone else