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From: kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga 1000 Abandonment
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.234700.16477@ncsu.edu>
Date: 25 Apr 91 23:47:00 GMT
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consp13@bingsunp.bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Marcus Cannava) writes:
>>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.)

Actually, it's hard to compare anything to computers, since people invest
so much time and money into them afterwards (like cars, maybe?)

An old computer is only "obsolete" in the eye of the beholder.  It doesn't
self-destruct or become less useful than it was, any more than a TV or
microwave does.  Yet I admit to looking with desire at newer digital
projection super-duper TVs, even tho my old TV is perfectly usable <g>.

In other words, sure TVs and microwaves become "obsolete", at least as
much as the hardware in a computer does.  The difference is: people (make
that most people) aren't religious about appliance "power" :-).  Hmm..
maybe they _are_ more like cars.  best - kev <kdarling@catt.ncsu.edu>