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From: cs326ag@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Toaster news
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.063400.29585@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 17 Apr 91 06:34:00 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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In article <1991Apr16.060721.4531@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
>
>  There's an interesting tidbit of news in this week's MacWeek magazine.
>Quoting from an article about the National Association of Broadcasters
>show, to be held in Las Vegas next week:
>
[article deleted to save space...]
>[End of quote]
>
>  What I find interesting is the second paragraph "We've taken the
>cool parts of the Amiga and ...".  Does this mean they've licensed the
>Amiga hardware from Commodore, or do you think they're buying up
>Amigas and ripping the guts out of them?

There has been some talk of a deal.  At that price, one can only
imagine that they must have.  Actually some questions still remain:
Does it ship with a plain 68000?  Boy, LightWave would be fun to use
without a 68030@<25MHz, NOT!  How much memory will this beast ship 
with?  5-7MB min. to be useful!  HD?
At that cost, I think it must be a bare bones 68000 with 5MB of memory...

I can see why NewTek would want to make a self contained box...
I hear (from a dealer friend) that the return rate on the Toaster
is as high as 50%! 'cause poor saps get the thing without understanding
that it needs a computer! large HD, and memory...  I heard one story
(that I will not repeat) that had me rolling on the floor about a guy
who got a Toaster and returned it due to the above minunderstanding.

>Evan Torrie.  Stanford University, Class of 199?       torrie@cs.stanford.edu   
Loren J. Rittle
-- 
``The Amiga continues to amaze me--if I had not been told that this video was
  created using the Amiga and Toaster, I would not have believed it.  Even     
  Allen said, `I think I know how he did most of the effects.' '' - Jim Lange
  Loren J. Rittle  l-rittle@uiuc.edu