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From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga coverage in Byte
Message-ID: <997@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 3 Mar 91 00:35:43 GMT
References: <91059.184958CXW148@psuvm.psu.edu> <1991Mar1.024207.29305@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <1991Mar2.013632.24056@comspec.uucp>
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In article <1991Mar2.013632.24056@comspec.uucp> darrell@comspec.uucp (Darrell Grainger) writes:
|In article <1991Mar1.024207.29305@en.ecn.purdue.edu>, stevew@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Steven L Wootton) writes:
||[From 3/91 issue of BYTE:]
||     It's not the Toaster's fault, but it'll cost you to really put it to
||     full use.  Around $25,000 for a starter setup (including the Amiga) is
||     reasonable.
|| 
|  I was a little shocked to see the price tag Byte has put to the Toaster. My
|figuring for the  Toaster would be the following:
|
|- Amiga 2500 (or equivalent)
|- Add 2 meg to the accelerator
|- Add 2 meg to the A2091
|- Toaster
|- 1084 monitor
|- Time Based Corrector (TBC)
|- video deck
|- camera with video deck capibilities
|
| I know how much the computer equipment costs because I sell it. You would be
|looking at $5300 (maybe less; I'm guessing high). A camera with TBC, and video
|deck with TBC costs $20000? I don't think so. What does Byte think you need on
|the video end of a Toaster setup?
|

I was under the impression that a canonical toaster set up really needs
three high-quality monitors: one for preview, one for the toaster software,
and one for the output.  Depending on what monitors you get, you could run
the price up over 10G... but I would have to agree that 20G's is awfully
high...

|| Darrell Grainger (darrell@comspec) |Comspec Communications Inc.    |
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		Dave Schaumann		dave@cs.arizona.edu
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