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From: ptavoly@cs.ruu.nl (Peter Tavoly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Hey, Commodore has a brain everybody! (Marketing)
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.162549.18165@cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 17 Jun 91 16:25:49 GMT
References: <29305@know.pws.bull.com> <1991Jun12.023209.19315@cs.wayne.edu> <1991Jun13.092203.23979@cs.ruu.nl> <1360@cbmger.UUCP>
Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science
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In <1360@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:

>In article <1991Jun13.092203.23979@cs.ruu.nl> ptavoly@cs.ruu.nl (Peter Tavoly) writes:
>>In <1991Jun12.023209.19315@cs.wayne.edu> jal@pandora.cs.wayne.edu (Jason Leigh) writes:
>>
>>It has: it's called First Steps or something (I've got the German version:
>>Erste Schritte), it includes graphics, all mouse-driven (until you get
>>to the shell stuff, but mouse is still supported)
>>
>>It's great and it's more than 3 years old :) (I got it with the 1.2 WB)
>
>It's past. It was dropped for cost reasons. 

Cost reasons? One disk (~25 cents) + duplication costs (nearly nihil, since
duplication companies frequently give discounts on disks themselves if
you use their services). All in all, I would exaggerate if the whole package
would be more than 5 bucks (including author's royalties!).

Seems to me this is not much on ~$400 (for the cheapest models).

>The success of such a thing is hard to estimate. When you count the
>telephone calls to our hotline, this thing didn't have any impact...

Hotlines are usually called with _gripes_. Seems to me the package was
simply self-explanatory. I already was dreaming about an Amiga for a long
time by then (just as I do now with the A3000 :), so I didn't need it,
but it should really be a great help for novices.

Hmm.. I rather think CBM had some copyright dispute with the author then...
(Perhaps he got too greedy?)

>Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
>Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk

 -Thomas.

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