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From: nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: AMIGA
Message-ID: <1991May05.082522.23754@ariel.unm.edu>
Date: 5 May 91 08:25:22 GMT
References: <1991Jan15.024807.25384@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Jan15.201647.16637@rice.edu> <24719@grebyn.com>
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In article <24719@grebyn.com> ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:
>
>The Amiga will never shuck the "game machine" image.  Not as long as
>Commodore sells the Amiga 500 for $499.  In fact it may not be in
>
>The fact that the A2000, A2500, and A3000 are all still called "Amiga"
>relates them to the A500.  Do you notice that everybody's main compatability

Well, I don't know... most people still don't know what an Amiga is!  What
about the 3000UX ...is it a game machine?

I personally believe everyone is greatly under estimating what the toaster
will do for the Amiga sort of like people under estimated MTV.  The toaster
and all the the video effects it creates will mytholigise Amiga power.
Remember that few people understand anything about computers.  The whole
purpose of many video effects is that they have a certain power.  It is like
art or dance... it is a form of nonverbal communication.  Now Amiga will
be the DTV machine and people will know that.  Schools and many other 
organizations will use Amiga to create videos and poeple will be interested
to know how it was done, especially if they see their own images involved.
"Video" I believe is perceived as a new form of power and Amiga will be
strongly associated with this power and the association will carry over
into anything else the Amiga does.   

Just about everyone I know would like to make their own video.

Further, if George Bush  gets impeached, the tough IBM father figure will
be tainted. (If you don't get it, don't even ask!)


                                     NCW


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