Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!mvb.saic.com!dayton.saic.com!afitamy!p10.f21.n232.z1.FIDONET.ORG!Lee.Scoggins From: Lee.Scoggins@p10.f21.n232.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Lee Scoggins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Better support for A500 owners, not less (was Re: Future of 500) Message-ID: <332.2749775B@afitamy.fidonet.org> Date: 18 Nov 91 04:11:32 GMT Sender: ufgate@afitamy.fidonet.org (newsout1.26) Organization: FidoNet node 1:232/21.10 Lines: 49 AREA:UUCP_HRDWR > > In article jkh@bambam.pcs.com (Jordan > K. Hubbard) writes: > >Despite the fact that I'll eventually have a 3000, I'd still like to > >make something usable out of my 500, and I feel that Commodore has > >more-or-less abandoned the A500 folks. They're certainly happy enough > >to market them as aggressively as ever, but have they offered any > >additional peripherals? Nooooo. If the A590 is the best that they can > >manage, we're in deep doo-doo. > > I think you're being overly pessimistic. Sure we'd like to sell > 500,000 A500s in the coming year. We'd rather sell 1,000,000, and if > paying attention to the A500 (peripherals, redesign, or whatever might > help sales) will help, I think it's a good assumption we're interested. > Another thing to realize is that while a lot of the Amiga sales in the > USA are A2000s or better, most of our sales elsewhere are A500's, so it's > _very_ important to us as a company. I have found that it's not that unusual for third party developers to do the lion's share of development on a given platform. I think you will find the same thing for the Apple II series, the Atari 800/600/1200 series, etc. I am overjoyed at the fact that there has been a recent explosion in the number of peripherals available for the A500. I, like a lot of people, started with the A500 as a computer "for the kids". Since the original purchase of the A500 with a 1084 monitor I have added the following: 3 1/2" external drive A501 512K memory expansion/clock Supra 20meg HardDrive (the A590 had not been released yet) Supra 2meg ram expansion module I feel I've got a machine pretty much capable of doing anything that the A2000 can do. I probably could have done it cheaper by starting with an A2000, but budget-wise I feel I did the best thing I could do at the time. Someday (if I can talk my wife into it ) I'll make the jump to an A3000 or A4000. Until then I think those of us who own A500's have a lot of options open to us thanks to third party developers. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AFIT Amiga Users BBS/UFGateway |Lee Scoggins - via FidoNet node 1:110/300 1:110/300 Dayton, Ohio |UUCP: afitamy!232!21.10!Lee.Scoggins (513)-252-7681 |ARPA: Lee.Scoggins@p10.f21.n232.z1.FIDONET.ORG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------