Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!bacchus.pa.dec.com!granite.pa.dec.com!mwm From: mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (Real Amigas have keyboard garages) Meyer) Newsgroups: alt.sources.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga Blues Message-ID: Date: 17 Aug 90 20:13:10 GMT References: <20260001@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> <1037@flash.UUCP> <140833@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Sender: news@wrl.dec.com (News) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 37 In-Reply-To: jcb@frisbee.Sun.COM's message of 17 Aug 90 00:18:06 GMT In article <140833@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> jcb@frisbee.Sun.COM (Jim Becker) writes: I never flamed CBM about what the vendors did - that's not CBM's fault. I never flamed CBM for promising one thing and delivering another - for the most part, they delivered on their promises. Live! Genlock, SCSI, Unix? Perhaps CBM is a lot better than Atari, but these four elements were released at least two years after they were working in the lab. I don't recall CBM promising any of those things for the A1000 except the genlock. I do believe the A1300 (genlock) was released in '86, and I bought one of the last produced in '87. Wanna buy it? Of course, you forgot the Transformer. Then again, I didn't buy an A2000 until last June - and it's (thankfully) banished from my house to make room for a A3000. And "working in the lab" in no way constitutes a "promise". Neither does a demo - that shows promise, but isn't one. A "promise" is an announcement that something will be available, but it needs a ship date to be believable. From what I saw, CBM has been incredibly bad about missing ship dates, and even worse about demoing things and then putting off releasing them for long periods of time. Anyone want an A1000 with Zorro backplane? If you've got a complete high-end A1000 system (8Meg ram expansion board, possibly unpopulated + SCSI adaptor) that works, there's a market for it. I didn't have a lot of trouble selling mine. Post to the appropriate for sale group, crossposted to c.s.a (make sure the distribution is limited by the for sale group).