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From: sss10@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gun Control is a firm grip)
Subject: Re: Mac Sales Vs Amiga?
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Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1991 20:40:15 GMT

In article <1991Jun03.051159.27197@ariel.unm.edu> nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham) writes:
>I get the idea that C= is waiting for 2.0 and is now concetrating their
>marketing resources on CDTV.  I also get the idea that C= is going to make
>A LOT of money off CDTV.  We were talking to a dealer in Santa Fe the other
>day and she said the schools up there were bugging her to get some CDTV's
>in.

According to 2 dealers in NY, <Leighs and Amaginations> they sold a total of 7
CDTVS... out of the 7 they have received. I dont know how long it took them to 
do so but i get the impression they were gone pretty quickly. Is an 
Encyclopedia <not almanac, Encyclopedia> available or going to be available?
Just a qucik question.

>And won't the 500 with the ECS and 2.0 support a VGA monior.  A 500 with
>a VGA display for less than eight or nine hundred dollars will be killer.
>People will look at there Mac Classics and turn green.

Actually ICD makes a flicker fixer for the 500 but you gotta take it apart to
connect it and I think that voids the warranty. The only "negative" to this 
would mean the inevitable death of the 1084S. I mean that monitor costs ~$300 
in most stores while I figure a decent VGA monitor can be had for less. This
has been my main complaint with the pricing of the 500. If you used a cheaper 
monitor, you could easily get a 1 meg 500 for less that a classic but not so
with the 1084S.
Wouldnt it make sence for C= to include a flickerfixer thing in the 500
considering the problem with possible warranty invalidations and all?

more ideas...

>
>                                       NCW


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