Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!valnet!joseph From: joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Sears' WishBook and the A500c Message-ID: Date: 29 Sep 90 02:44:48 GMT References: <1415@gandalf.littlei.UUCP> Organization: Valley BBS Network Lines: 30 griff@anvil.intel.com (Richard Griffith) writes: > That's not all - I was talking to my mother the other day - (she has a > 1000 - way to go mom! :-) Anyway she as a bit confused - it seems that > the 500 doesn't come with disk drives? and only uses 5 1/4" drives? > It better - according to the Sears book - that's how all the software > gets sold...... :-( > > > A few months ago - someone yelled "Yippee! 500's are going to be sold by > Sears"... I mentioned at that time that this would be a two edged sword... > Most of the Sears personnel I have met have very little knowledge of > computers in general ("It sells just like a stereo - right? same > commission?" :-^ ) > Well - it seems that right out of the chute - they've already blown it. > > > :Richard E. Griffith, "griff" : iNTEL, Hillsboro Ore. > :griff@anvil.hf.intel.com > :SCA!: Cyrus Hammerhand, Household of the Golden Wolf, Dragons' Mist, An Tir > :These are MY opinions, if iNTEL wanted them, They'd pay for `em! The A500 is your souped up A1000, the only difference being that Commodore corrected most of the things where they screwed up the A1000. -Joseph Hillenburg UUCP: ...iuvax!valnet!joseph ARPA: valnet!joseph@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu INET: joseph@valnet.UUCP