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From: bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper)
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Subject: Re: computer buyers
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In article <1991Jun6.220223.8232@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
>bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper) writes:
>
>>complexity, enough to make a difference.  How do you explain the fact
>>that there are 3 million of those little 500s out there, and rising;
>>they're being snapped up at a faster rate than Macs, yet the Mac is so
>>much easier to deal with and has a much more aggressive ad campaign?
>
> <...>
>Not surprisingly, Commodore outsells Apple in NZ...  you have this huge
>number of Amiga 500s being bought as games machines, through heavy
>advertising and cost of approx $1000 a machine vs $3000 for a Classic.
>[Maybe the boys from actrix.gen.nz would like to comment on this].

Well, you know about 500 owners.  What's the average Classic buyer like?

>>I would argue that a good number of those 2.5 million A500 users know
>>how to deal with a startup-sequence or a CLI.  
>
>  What's a good number?  42?  Anyone out there in dealer land like to
>comment on their perception of the A500 users?

Go back and get my point.  Look at the users of Classics vs. users of
500s, not the dealer-fresh buyers of each.  See where they stand.  I know of
six other 500 owners besides myself, all more literate than the Classic
owners I know that don't need to deal with a script or CLI.

>Evan Torrie.  Stanford University, Class of 199?   torrie@cs.stanford.edu

Oh, to hell with it.  I've got finals, and NeXTs to sell. ;-)

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