Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!rochester!rutgers!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: The Tower and the Trade Up Policy -- Deal or Disappointment? Keywords: 3000T Message-ID: <21323@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 7 May 91 00:00:24 GMT References: <1991May1.090600.16894@ucselx.sdsu.edu> <1991May4.104839.18395@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <12922@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 24 In article <12922@pt.cs.cmu.edu> cactus@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu (Todd Masco) writes: >In article <1991May4.104839.18395@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: >I fully intend to buy the A3000-25/50 in the next few days. Plus, an >Ethernet card of some sort if the entire setup isn't too expensive >(blah. PC Ethernet cards are cheap. What's so expensive about Amiga >Ethernet?). I wrote up a poster for a house party I'm planning. It came out as 2MB of PostScript code. It uploaded from my A3000 to "cbmvax" in under a minute. Since the printer queue was down, I went next door to my buddy Greg's PC-40, which has a weird Eicon printer that also does PostScript. That PC's Ethernet took over 15 minutes to download my file. Going by that unscientific estimate of transfer rate, if a PC Ethernet card costs $100, the Amiga card should go for $3000. So think of it as a bargain. -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy "That's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight" -R.E.M.