Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!m.cs.uiuc.edu!vela!lmbailey From: lmbailey@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Laurana Bailey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Commodore Business Machines Message-ID: <7517@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Date: 25 Jun 91 22:25:45 GMT References: <7471@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <1991Jun25.023136.10436@ncsu.edu> Organization: Lemming-Aid 1992 - Benefit Concert To Save The Lemmings Lines: 35 In article <1991Jun25.023136.10436@ncsu.edu> kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes: | > I once had big hopes for Commodore and the Amiga, but both seemed | > doomed to stay a second class company with a second class machine. | | Owning a computer can be very much like a marriage. You have shotgun | marriages (it's used at work); marriages of convenience (it has | easy software); casual affairs (turn it on once a week); friendship | or love (familiarity); narcissistic (you designed it yourself :-). :-) I'd never quite looked at it that way before. | | The computer marriages which _never_ work out over the long run, are those | based solely on "looks" or "bragging rights" or "potential popularity" | or brandname "crushes". Those will fail whenever times get rough | and/or if someone points out a better-looking partner. | | It's a natural outcome of being unnaturally fanatical about any one machine. | The key is to choose what _you_ want and what fits your needs. And to | not worry about what others say. If I had a nickel for every I'm-fed-up | message in _any_ computer forum... The Amiga does do what I want and does fill my needs. I just want the company to be around the day after tomorrow to continue to support my needs and have the machine do what I want. With the way things are going, this will not be the case for Commodore. Laurana -- /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ |Just another lemming... | Yet another Amiga maniac set loose | | | on the world...and you thought things| |lmbailey@vela.acs.oakland.edu | couldn't get any worse. |