Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!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 19:17:49 GMT References: <463@netxcom.netx.com$ <13298@uwm.edu> <4185@ux.acs.umn.edu><1991Jun22.201559.10535@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Organization: Michigan Information eXchange Lines: 50 jsibley@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (James Sibley) writes: >In article <4185@ux.acs.umn.edu> mmoore@ux.acs.umn.edu (Malcolm Diallo Moore) >>In article <13298@uwm.edu$ gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes: >>$From article <463@netxcom.netx.com>, by logan@netxcom.netx.com (Jim Logan): >>$ >>$> I read in Byte this morning that the Toaster will soon be sold to run >>$> 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". >>$ >>$Greg >>$ >>$-- >>$Socrates: "I drank WHAT????" > >>But what I wanna know is: >> >>Is Commodore gettin any radio play out of all this? >> >>OR >> >>Are we getting jacked....again? >> > > I think we're getting jacked again (as you so quaintly put it..) By not >putting the Commodore name on the box, how will Commodore benefit from this >deal (besides more 2000's being cranked out..) I mean when someone sees one >of these boxes they should know that it is an Amiga and by concealing this >information Commodore stands to lose some much valued business.. People may >actually start to believe that NewTek made a Mac version (that just happens >to look alot like an Amiga 2000..) Well, I think it was a bad move but that's >just my opinion.. (Boy do I hate that word..) And Sears sold the Atari 2600 as an TeleGames... Most people knew they were both the same system, and anyone into video who knows what an Amiga 2000 looks like from maybe an AD in the video magazines or personal experience will say "It looks like they took an A2000 and put a toaster in it and sell it for the Mac with some special software for $6000"...then this guy tells someone, and then that guy tells someone, and sooner or later everyone knows its an Amiga in there...and the people who use the Mac version will look really dumb.. -- 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!