Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!sarah!bingnews!bingvaxu!consp13 From: consp13@bingsunp.bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Marcus Cannava) Subject: Re: Amiga 1000 Abandonment In-Reply-To: kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu's message of 25 Apr 91 09:59:59 GMT Message-ID: Sender: usenet@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Mr UseNet) Nntp-Posting-Host: bingsunp.pod.binghamton.edu Organization: State University of New York at Binghamton References: <1991Apr25.042851.8912@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> <1991Apr25.095959.22878@ncsu.edu> Date: 25 Apr 91 09:59:22 >An awful _lot_ of computers which cost $$ back in 1986 aren't worth much >on resale now either... but this is natural, I think. We all seem to >expect "favors" from computer companies, which we would never expect >from, say, a television maker. (OTOH, it could easily be said that an >enthusiastic computer owner is worth his weight in advertising gold :-). I think this is a bit of an unfair comparison, since televisions don't become "obsolete" one year after purchase. I don't think there's any other industry that moves as fast as the computer industry. (Do you find your microwave from two years ago "obsolete" ? No, but two years in computer-time is like eons.) And, given the fact that today's computer will be severely underpowered in two years (a short time, really), I think the computer companies could at least soften the blow by promising that you'll have somewhere to go, reasonably, after those two years are over and you find yourself out in the cold. (To be fair, Commodore did offer a trade-up program for the A2000.. I believe it was $1000 + A1000 = A2000) \marc -- consp13@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu Marcus N. Cannava @bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu SUNY-Binghamton ---------------------------------- Student Consultant 'I do not fear computers.. I fear the lack of them' -- I. Asimov RNM