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From: baer@qiclab.uucp (Ken Baer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Toaster all overs all over!
Summary: History lesson
Keywords: Toasters in Used ads
Message-ID: <1990Dec24.190948.2451@qiclab.uucp>
Date: 24 Dec 90 19:09:48 GMT
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In article <1990Dec22.203552.25888@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> cag4@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Carson A. Gaspar) writes:
>>Yeah, anyone can be this prepared,all it takes is releasing 
>>the product umpteen years past its original release date.

>Hey, get your facts straight.  NewTek released the Toaster a couple of
>months late, not a couple of years.  It was _leaked_ a couple of years
>ago, but was only _officially_ announced fairly recently.

Not so.  It was officially announced recently that it was SHIPPING,
but NewTek has been showing prototype Toasters at trade shows since
early 1988.  In fact, they showed it on Computer Chronicles around
February '88, stating that it would be $795, and would be shipping
in a month.  That was from the lips of Tim Jennison, it doesn't get
much more official than that.  

>  NewTek
>can't help what other people say.  Many of us remember the "Laser
>Toaster" joke that NewTek circulated as a cover story for any leaks.

That was started in '87.  There was also talk about the Jelly-Jet printer.

>Don't say bad things that have no basis in fact about a company that's
>done so much for the amiga.

We're all glad that the Toaster is available, and quite a lot more of
a product than it was originally going to be, but the pre-hype and
release delay has gone into Amiga history, and even surpassed such
luminaries as Amiga Live, and Return To Atlantis!

>carson@close.cs.columbia.edu (preferred)        | Carson Gaspar
>cag4@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (forwards to above) | BIX: cgaspar 


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