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From: fhwri%CONNCOLL.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re:  Comments about the Classic.
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Date: 23 Oct 90 12:58:12 GMT
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You made a big mistake; the McClassic comes with ONE floppy and ONE meg of
RAM for $1000; a hard drive and another meg (making it at least a usable
machine) bring the cost up to about $1500 list, which is about what you'd
pay for a 2 meg HD A500.

I'm the first to agree that AmigaDOS has a steep learning curve, but I
FAR prefer a machine with the extendable power of the Shell to one that
in the words of a friend of mine, insults the intelligence of the user.

BTW: The Mac screen IS interlaced; its frequency is 90 Hz. That way, it
doesn't APPEAR to flicker. Great, but useless for video. Broadcast TV,
which most people watch from time to time, is NTSC interlace, just like
Amiga 640 * 400...
                                                --Rick Wrigley
                                                fhwri@conncoll.bitnet