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From: liberato@dri.com (Jimmy Liberato)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Burn MACWorld... BURN!
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Date: 17 Apr 91 20:18:49 GMT
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mark@calvin..westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson) writes:

>Yes, it is being marketed this way for the Mac and IBM clones. But there is
>something else. Tim Jenison (NewTek president) was recently quoted to say
>that their goal was to produce a stand-alone Toaster for under $1000. They
>plan on achieving this end by incorporating pieces of the Amiga into the
>new "black box" toaster. I have heard they have already done some negotiations
>with Commodore to create this product.

Yes, I'm sure they must be working on such a thing but it is unlikely that 
Jenison would quote such a low price especially if it is directed to the 
Mac world!  If there is any licensing of technology involved there is no
way it would be done for $1,000.  If you were a Mac or PC user would you buy one
for, let's say, $3,000 (a more likely price) if you knew that they were planning
to drop the price to $1,000?  It doesn't seem very shrewd to expose such plans 
even if they are indeed true.

PC Magazine also suggested using the Amiga-Toaster as a "peripheral" to a PC!

(I don't dispute that you read the quote about the $1000.  I do question the
accuracy of the original quote!) 

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Jimmy Liberato   liberato@dri.com
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