Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!bronze!lothario!tagreen From: tagreen@lothario.ucs.indiana.edu (Todd Green) Subject: Re: Few questions/observations about the A3000 Message-ID: <1991Apr23.150231.4211@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University Computing Services References: <1991Apr22.184252.10274@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <_#3BWVB@irie.ais.org> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 91 15:02:31 GMT Lines: 70 In article <_#3BWVB@irie.ais.org> jph@ais.org (Joseph Hillenburg) writes: >In article <1991Apr22.184252.10274@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> tagreen@lothario.ucs.indiana.edu (Todd Green) writes: > >Hi, Todd. Hello back Joe! Well lets try this again. I've received numerous letters about the 3000 and I thank all of your for them. They ranged from outright flames to very useful comments. I'll try to summarize and restate my views to appease those who told me to steer away from the Amiga that I wouldn't like it at all. 1) KickStart 2.0 I received letters saying that it would cost anywhere from $0 to $50. My main question was about upgrading and it's ease/compatibility. Not the advantages/disadvantages of a ROM upgrade. You have to realize that not all companies are willing to give upgrades in this manner. Take apple for instance. I'll be amazed if they offer a ROM upgrade so that I can have 32-bit clean ROM in my IIcx, even though there is a SIMM slot specifically designed for this purpose. 2) flicker in scan line I was looking at a 1950 monitor. Bug in amber chip. If you play with the preferences it can be minimized or done away with. Many people suggested that I should use the preferences. Well yes, I did look at the choices of things that could be modified, BUT you have to realize that I was in a store and not all stores allow you to sit and play with the machines to your heart's desire. In fact some are quite rude and get rather worried when they see someone messing with their machines. (And I've tried all 3 of our local Amiga stores..only one was willing to let me get my hands on the machine...by the time I got there I only had about an hour left to use the machine..and there were also other customers interested in it.) You have to realize that it's a little different when you have your own machine and can play with it. I'm still trying to find someone willing to let me get my hands on their machine. HINT Joe. 3) My comments (flame) on the Amiga. I think I was most understood in this area, especially since I didn't have much good to say about it. Well that's because the good is granted, and all of you know the good qualities. In order to not duplicate what I had said before I'll generalize. Every machine has it's good and strong points, I tried to state the weak points that I see in the Amiga. To those of you who told me to get a Mac, obviously I already have one, and yes there are things about it that annoy me. There are things that annoy me about the NeXT that I use. No computer does it all. What I like about the Amiga is it's ability to do animation. No the GUI isn't ideal for me, but that doesn't mean I shouldn't get it. Probably more than anything else the reason why I'd liek an Amiga is because it's something else to master, something new. It's nice to be a novice again in a different environment. I think back to my first days in the VMS/UNIX world, my that was quite a step comming from a Mac world. I remember being horrified by the "$" prompt. Oh wel enough nostalgia. Finally my "crack" about Amiga people buying before shopping. I in no means meant to speak of _all_ the people in the Amiga community. Of course there are people like this in every walk of life. A friend recently dropped 22K for a ThunderBird SE without shopping around. That amazed me just as much as people who buy computers without doing what I would call sufficient research. If I offended anyone then I'm sorry. -- Internet: tagreen@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu NeXTMail: tagreen@lothario.ucs.indiana.edu BitNet: tagreen@iubacs.bitnet