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From: dale@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dale Luck - Amiga)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A3000
Message-ID: <11391@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 6 May 90 16:15:15 GMT
References: <79733@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <8863@hubcap.clemson.edu> <11126@cbmvax.commodore.com> <153@next.com> <124@coplex.UUCP> <157@next.com>
Reply-To: dale@cbmvax (Dale Luck - Amiga)
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In article <157@next.com> Ali_Ozer@NeXT.com (Ali Ozer) writes:
>
>I guess my point was that a hard disk should be considered as much a part of 
>a professional computer as the floppy or the CPU.  Otherwise there will always
>be cases where unsuspecting people will buy the machine without the HD and 
>very soon run into trouble and end up thinking the machine is not powerful
>enough or end up paying more for a HD that they could've gotten cheaper if
>factory installed.  And I imagine the number of such cases will outnumber of
>the number of people who know what they're doing and wish they could buy the 
>machine without the HD.
That is a job for the dealer to educate the consumer. Commodore (In my opinion)
should not be limiting the configurations of machines that it sells to
the customer. There are plenty of reasons to have a bare bones machine that
comes only with a floppy drive. There are many other options for mass storage
devices than the drives Commodore is forcing to be sold with the Computer.
The fact that there is an external scsi port on the back of the A3000 would
lead one to believe that Commodore intended people to use external scsi
devices easily with the machine. 
>
>Ali (Ali Ozer@NeXT.com)


Dale Luck
GfxBase