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From: donb@bushido.uucp (Donald Burnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Low cost Macs and The Return of Timex (was Re: Murph's VAPORWARE )
Message-ID: <1990Sep10.000409.4425@bushido.uucp>
Date: 10 Sep 90 00:04:09 GMT
References: <9008270223.AA07322@lilac.berkeley.edu> <2788@corpane.UUCP> <4393@grape3.UUCP> <940@iceman.jcu.oz>
Organization: Bushido Systems of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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I just saw a PS/1 at my local Sears store here are my impressions:
1) Gosh what a small screen, looks like a Mac, but not Ergonomic.
2) Gosh how tiny that VGA screen is, hey it reminds me of an SX-64.
3) $1000 for the low-low end, $2000 for the high-end, OUCH sticker
   shock. This doesnt look very powerful.
4) DOS in ROM, what no real "WINDOWS".. What's this about office
   power for the home. I thought this was only supposed to be a
   machine with home applications for the home crowd, not the
   home office people.
5) Hey what's this IBM clone over here, it has a nicer BIGGER display
   and it cost less. Hey this is a nicer machine, it has a bigger
   screen.
6) I'd go crazy looking for this machine's display for any length of
   time. What this won't boot a 3.5" game.. Well it's only a display
   model.

Am I impressed? Nahh, were the sales people knowledgable about it? nahh
Were these selling, in three minutes of standing no sales people and
someone else who is looking at it just picked up a laser pc clone because
the display was "easier to read". This Sears was in Briarwood Mall in
Ann Arbor MI. I can't say that I even thought this wasn't a competitive
PC clone, just because the display was so little and hard to read. IBM
has come home again..



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