Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!mcdchg!laidbak!ism.isc.com!uunet!munnari.oz.au!murdu!ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au!u3364521 From: U3364521@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Lou Cavallo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Wrong board size for Amiga 3000 Message-ID: <1169@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> Date: 23 Oct 90 16:31:53 GMT References: <5086@crash.cts.com> <107337@convex.convex.com> Organization: I.A.E.S.R., Melbourne University Lines: 47 G'day, In article <107337@convex.convex.com>, swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren) writes: [...Steve's suggestions of a cheap minimal expansion Amiga...] > This tube could sell for around $2000-$2500 retail, and people would line > to buy it. Your idea Steve (an A3000 integrated into a 1950 monitor with swivel base, minus the slots and some other stuff) sounds to me like a description of a Sparc SLC. :-) Some questions arise, o should the monitor be a larger one (a la a Viking)? ( will that make such a box that is too expensive ) ( for "ordinary" Amiga user? ) o how to price it/market it wrt the Amiga 2000? o how to find out when/if CBM will be doing this? Seriuosly, this question forms part of the broader issue of how to broaden the Amiga product line (and also of when too). Yes, I like the idea of a cheaper/faster Amiga too. Steve (although I haven't repeated the details here) I like this idea/view. > _. > --Steve ._||__ DISCLAIMER: All opinions are my own. > Warren v\ *| ---------------------------------------------- > V {uunet,sun}!convex!swarren; swarren@convex.COM yours truly, Lou Cavallo. PS: for international consumption. An Amiga 3000 with 1950 monitor, 5Megs of RAM and 100Meg Quantum hard drive retails at one outlet here (i.e. Melbourne Australia) for AUS$9400 !! I hope this changes one day. :-( Yes we have reasonable discount schemes (however this outlet above says this is only for Secondary (non University) schools, but CBM Oz say foo on them!) but as a Recommended Retail Price (which I believe it is close too) I think it is too high. :-(