Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven.umd.edu!uvaarpa!vger.nsu.edu!manes From: manes@vger.nsu.edu ((Mark D. Manes), Norfolk State University) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future Message-ID: <1108.2865c128@vger.nsu.edu> Date: 24 Jun 91 13:53:44 GMT References: <1991Jun20.075145.22785@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Lines: 51 In article , rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) writes: > storch@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Matthew Storch) writes: > > [much good stuff deleted] > > > > How does this sound...Commodore should be bold, and add on-board SCSI to all > Amigas built after January 1992. Across the line, except the A500C until they > can afford to add it to a $500 machine. Then alot of places that sell Mac only > SCSI drives would jump on the bandwagon of selling external SCSI's for Amigas > as well... They could call them the A500PS, A2000S, and the A2500S. It would > encourage A500PS owners to get Hard Drives, especially if it only costs $400 > for 100 megs...instead of $1000 for 100 megs that it currently costs with > external controllers...Raise the price of the computers $50 if thats what it > takes..People looking at A500P's wouldn't mind paying $50 extra if they know > its saving them $400 in the future.. Though it would be wonderful for the users to have SCSI added to all Amigas, I think that this would raise the hackle of every major Amiga hardware developer. I believe that the majority of hardware add-ons sold for the Amiga are disk controllers and drives. If you take that away what will the developers have to sell as they develop more interesting products? Every manufacturer needs a cash-cow. Controllers, disk drives and memory boards have been the mainstay of GVP, Supra and IVS. Add a SCSI to every Amiga and kiss some developers goodbye. The A3000 is a working example of this. I truly love my A3000, but how many disk controllers or memory boards can you spot? I can't find any. I think this is ok for the high-end machines, but if Commodore does this to the A2000. Well, you see my point. > > -- 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!) > If Americans only cared about their Government as much as their SPORTS!! -mark= +------------------------------------------------------+ ///// | Mark D. Manes | ///// | email: manes@vger.nsu.edu | ///// | phone: (804) 683-2532 | \\\\\///// +------------------------------------------------------+ \\\\// Amiga! "Ohh say can you C!"