Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Toaster on a Mac (Re: IAC) Message-ID: Date: 23 Jun 91 05:14:06 GMT References: <463@netxcom.netx.com> <13298@uwm.edu><1991Jun23.012633.2618@ncsu.edu> Distribution: world Organization: Michigan Information eXchange Lines: 32 kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes: >>> I read in Byte this morning that the Toaster will soon be sold to run >>> with a Mac. >> >> It sure will. :) It's a standalone toaster. They take an Amiga >> 2000, add 5 megs of ram, drop in the Toaster, remove all the labels, >> and replace them with labels that say "Video Toaster". > >I just got my BYTE, and while it talks about the standalone version >version based on the A2000, it ends with this sentence: > > "A company spokesperson said that Newtek is talking with Apple > about making the Video Toaster available as a Mac accessory." > >That could mean sticking an Apple label on the A2000 case, but I doubt it. >More likely, Newtek would create a true Mac version... mostly because >if they don't, someone else surely will. - kev I feel stupid for saying this, but once the original is released for any platform, it seems everything else is playing catchup, because others look at the bottom line of what company X made, and said, if I can make 1/2 of X I will make Y...Once someone starts something moving, it will attract other money hungry people to the same platform...Thank god thats the way the world works...Who needs Newtek if they abandon the machine, someone else will pick up where they left off.. -- C-UseNet V0.42e Ronald Kushner Life in Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 P.O. Box 353 14400 USR HST V.42 & V.42bis Sterling Heights, MI 48311-0353 Complete Amiga Support UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner (We are not satanic, just NUTS!) No blood for oil! Raising C.A.F.E. to 40MPG is just that!