Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!DIALix!metapro!bernie From: bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future Message-ID: <1991Jun29.070257.2043@metapro.DIALix.oz.au> Date: 29 Jun 91 07:02:57 GMT References: <1991Jun21.183216.29240@news.iastate.edu> <430@hfsi.UUCP> <1991Jun22.140127.19580@news.iastate.edu> <1991Jun23.150753.17086@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> Organization: MetaPro Systems, Perth, Western Australia Lines: 18 In <1991Jun23.150753.17086@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> peter@Sugar.NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >The other thing it needs is an ~$1000 system like an A500 with a built in hard >drive and a detached keyboard to compete against the clones. Something in an >A1000 style case with a 2" drive would be fine. I realise you can upgrade >the 500 to that level for that price... but I think it needs to be bundled >to catch the people who don't want a machine that will clash with their den. Something like a 3B1 perhaps, without the monitor? (Keep the phone and modem as options:-)) There might even be room for a Zorro II card with a third-part expansion bus adaptor, and certainly room for a real power supply. -- Bernd Felsche, _--_|\ #include Metapro Systems, / sold \ Fax: +61 9 472 3337 328 Albany Highway, \_.--._/ Phone: +61 9 362 9355 Victoria Park, Western Australia v Email: bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au