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From: etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se (Tommy Petersson)
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Subject: Re: A European point of view (LONG)
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Date: 7 Dec 90 15:20:51 GMT
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In article <8442@dog.ee.lbl.gov> jnmoyne@lbl.gov (Jean-Noel MOYNE) writes:
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-        Quite good overview of the problem, but I believe one should 
-pinpoint a little more at least one aspect: the price in France are more 
-like 3 times the American prices. France is an expensive country, and 
-that's also true for computers. Amigas are cheaper in Germany, Belgium, 
-and UK (at least). And then again, most of the young people buying Amigas 
-in France are students, and don't have a lot of money.
-
-       Why do you believe that CBM is selling so much A500 in Europe ? Not 
-because Europeans are only using Amigas as a Nintendo and for doing small 
-poor programs ! Because they are the cheapest ones !  One year ago, an 
-Amiga 500 with 1 Mega of RAM (i.e. w/o external drive or monitor) was 
-about $1000 in most of the shops in Paris. You had only a very few places 

The official retail price in Sweden is now about $1050 with 512kb RAM...
You can normally buy it for $800, which isn't cheap either. Not so long
ago a Commodore external disc drive cost $310... Amiga 2000 without everything
cost $2600. Atari 520 is much cheaper, $540 with several games, compared
to $800 bare. Lucky Commodore the Atari's are not only cheap when it comes
to money... The 3000 is more reasonably priced, about $5300.

Funny, in the "real business world" over here (Unix systems et.al), the
frase "American programming" stands for smart-coded, badly structured, sloppy
code...


[What happens if/when the Amiga is included in the real business world?]

Tommy Petersson