Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!taco!hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu!kdarling From: kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Free CDTV Message-ID: <1991Jun28.014823.21155@ncsu.edu> Date: 28 Jun 91 01:48:23 GMT References: <1991Jun24.143041.30970@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Jun24.233755.1249@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <1991Jun25.012622.8835@ncsu.edu> <1991Jun27.060601.16414@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 30 mike@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Smithwick) writes: > [about CBM using Amiga owners as CDTV sales boosters] > Trouble is that sometimes the most enthusiastic Amigans can go all > the way from being charmingly eccentric to downright frightning. Imagine > being a salesgeek at M*cy's and in comes your Commodore contact, a guy > with shoulder length hair, long flowing cape, and a walking stick. Wait > a minute? This is a guy who will tell you what a serious machine the > CDTV is? Give me a break! But CDTV _isn't_ a deadly serious machine, y'see. So the caped guy might be just the ticket in this case :-) :-) It would beat my first look at an A2000, btw... the store owner shoved his 11-year old kid at me to show it, and all the kid knew how to do was to play some fighter shoot-em-up game. I'm sure I'm not alone in that. > Is this the kind of image C-A really needs? It is very refreshing > when I go to a DevCon and meet with the C-A markeing and management type > come across as very professional and confident people. Seriously, I agree... but for CDTV, you need whatever passes as a typical stereo salesman, perhaps... with a little extra enthusiasm thrown in :-) > Not to put down guys with capes, but if you want the > Amiga taken seriously as a professional machine, the T-shirts must > come off and the ties go on. Confusion again. Selling a CDTV unit is NOT REPEAT NOT the same as selling an "professional usage" Amiga. cheers - kev