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From: hull@hao.UUCP (Howard Hull)
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Subject: Re: Amiga vs. ST
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Date: Sun, 4-Aug-85 00:18:54 EDT
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> I hate to dampen the Amiga fire, but the Amiga is a doomed machine.
> How can I say this before 1 Amiga is sold?  Simple, this is history
> repeating it self, all over again.
Oh yeah.  And why aren't there more Pterodactyls down by the pond?
> Remember the Comodore C-64 and the Atari 800?  It was obvious to anybody,
> who seriously looked at BOTH machines, that the 800 was a better computer.
> But the Atari cost twice as much.  Guess which one, really sold. 
Precisely the point.  There are a lot of Atari 800, Comode C-64, & RS COCO
owners out there who are ready to place their 8-bit nibble juggler over the
nearest waste basket, let go of it, and let it take any old world-line it
pleases just to get their hands on a machine with a 68k, an accessable bus, a
set of coproc chips to handle the hard mundanities, a flexible window/keyboard
environment to snuggle up to the soft stuff, and a choice of TV or hirez
monitor color graphics to keep track of what's goin' on.  The only crock is
"only one internal disk drive".
> Want more proof?
I'll listen.
> Looked what happened last December, Atari sells 1/2 million 800XLs
> at 89.95 while C-64 sales down 90%, and most people thought C-64
> sales down due to "soft market", how come Atari sold 1/2 million,
> price/performance. 
Because they are (until September 15th anyway) still the guys with the
closest approximation to the desired performance/price.
> Enough history here is today:
Ok, poke your bet, man.  I'm going for the Amiga, and I've talked to a bunch
of others who see it that way, too.
> 
> Amiga 256k 1 internal floppy		$1295.00	"better machine"
> Atari ST-260 1 internal floppy	$ 499.00	"1/2 the price"
> 
> Need I say more ?
No, just go buy yourself an att7300 next year when they're down to $3000.
> 				ihnet!bryan
> 				Bryan K. DeLaney
> 				AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville IL
								     Howard Hull
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