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From: tyager@maxx.UUCP (Tom Yager)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Toaster all over
Keywords: Toasters in Used ads
Message-ID: <118@maxx.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 90 02:46:29 GMT
References: <2428@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Organization: MAXX: Tom Yager's UNIX lab, Amherst, NH.
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In article <2428@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>, lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
> What's the big deal? They announced it and showed it and announced it and
> showed it. Then for good measure, they repeated that a few times. When they
> got tired of that, they decided to say "We don't know when it will be ready",
> and "We haven't officially announced it yet".Nothing bad being said about them
> at all, unless you consider that the Toaster's position of vapourware set
> records to be particularly bad.
> -larry
> | \X/    lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips |

Give them some slack. That a company the size of NewTek could EVER manage
to release a product like the Toaster is amazing. That any company of ANY
size could manage it at $1595 is astounding. Those of us who have our
Toasters don't care how long it took; it was worth the wait.

For those of you moaning about the lack of Amiga coverage in the press, my
BYTE review of the Video Toaster is on its way. It promises to be one of the
biggest, glossiest reviews we've ever run (because the Toaster is a big,
glossy product). There will be more Amiga coverage coming in the form of
that system's application to various elements of video production and
pro (not home) quality multimedia presentations.

I've just started reading this group again. I'd like to hear from some other
netters who are using Toasters. Let me know how you like it, what you're using
it for, what surprised or disappointed you, etc. This is for my own
curiousity; the review has already been put to bed.
(ty)

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