Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: CBM & AMIGA Message-ID: Date: 28 Jun 91 22:37:57 GMT References: <2326@tekig7.MAP.TEK.COM><7595@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Organization: Michigan Information eXchange Lines: 52 lmbailey@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Laurana Bailey) writes: >Gee Dan, that sounds a lot like what I was saying only I didn't offer >any suggestions in my post. I hope you wore your asbestos clothing >because judging from the number of flames I've gotten, Ron (From Life >In Hell BBS) and the others should be trying to toast you sometime >soon. If you'd listen to Ron and his likes you'd think there wasn't >anything at all wrong at Commodore. It's the perfect computer company. I never said they were perfect, you're just taking a company thats ranked 29th in this country(Commodore) that was actually bankrupt in 1986/1987 and compairing it to a company like Apple who is #5 and has never had self destructive management....Sure Apple made it up to #5, but it took 12 YEARS of good times! Commodore has never had excellent management, but you want miracels. Even an article in Computer Shopper on the Mac IIfx states the Commodore Amiga is a techinal tour de force...And this is a guy reviewing the best Mac at the time, and saying this about the Amiga..Commodore couldn't even pay for an good press like that...Oh, but it wasn't on Channel 7...Sorry...I forgot TV IS YOUR GOD... I live in the real world and realize that REAL HAND WRITTEN LETTERS to Commodore will work more wonders than frighting users away from them on UseNet with doom and gloom... Like I said, you gotta give Commodore another 3 years before you fry them in the electric chair...Don't expect them to turn around like Chrysler did, because Commodore wasn't loaned a billion dollars from Uncle Sam...Don't expect poor sales in the US scare them to rush out a 32 bit chip set, 24 bit color, or anything else like that. Poor sales in Germany can only do that! And I suspect that US sales will really surprise you once the figures are released, this last year wasn't all that bad even with the recession. Actually, the recession probably helped Commodore because when people go shopping they will be looking for more for the money... If Al wants to feed his kids, tell him to get cheap PC clones and sell sell sell...Man does not live on Amiga alone.... And, as I have recently pointed out, there are 97 BBS's in the 313 area code supporting the Amiga. 43 BBS's supporting the Mac, and 324 supporting IBM...When you have 1/3 the support publically as IBM does, and twice the support of the Mac, that means people are buying the products and using their modems...And not just playing games!! This shows interest in their computers as well...I would suggest there are more Amigas in the homes, being USED, locally than there are Macs and Atari STs combined, just from the BBS support. Seeing how there are more Amiga modemers than Mac modemers, why has fraudigy continued to ignore the Amiga? -- C-UseNet V0.42f 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!)