Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a596 From: a596@mindlink.UUCP (Terry Palfrey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: board<>3000 RETRACTION-NEAT NEWSGROUP Message-ID: <3560@mindlink.UUCP> Date: 16 Oct 90 03:28:43 GMT Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada Lines: 24 Here, here. I am currently stretching my 500/1meg/3floppies to 500/5megs/syquest in an effort to hold off until the 68040's make the cost/upgrade really desirable. I didn't buy a 1000 (poor) but was able to fork out $3000 for a 500 two full long years later....approx. what I am spending now to upgrade software and hardware. This machine multitasks. This machine allows creativity. This machine also attracts newts,toads and other slithery things for some reason....maybe it's just the net. But as I keep posting over and over on the local boards (it costs me a quarter a pop here) The Amiga is a bubble/ripple/drop in the computing bitstream....all systems will (real soon now) have enough horsepower to push applications (in an easy to use xerox-park inspired interface) that will astound/astonish/amplify the user. What's at issue is the ability of all machines to allow for freedom of thought and communication/stimulation/interaction....to each his capability/cost-productivity ratio/compatability issues and to each his own private doubts/considerations/limitations. I've made my choice and have stood by it. I have suffered and triumphed. Crying over spilt milk (real or perceived) does nothing for the above described processes.....as with motions on the floor ....let them be stated in the positive. B3)