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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga,net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: New Atari Toy Computer
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Date: Mon, 20-Jan-86 16:25:42 EST
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In article <355@3comvax.UUCP> mykes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Schwartz) writes:
>
>I don't think anyone has ever indicated that anyone would buy the Amiga
>because it has a higher price than the ST, just that people who are
>going to spend $2000 for a computer will not even consider the ST, or
>any other less expensive computer.

Do you have any evidence for this?  I have never known anyone to put
a lower limit on what they are willing to spend, just an upper limit.

> On the other hand, those who want to
>buy a $400 computer won't buy a $2000 Amiga or a $1500 Mac or a $1000
>Apple II.
>

Probably they are looking for a $400 computer because they can't afford
more.

>DIGITIZERS and FRAME GRABBERS.  Facts are facts: the Amiga, when it
>matures, will be light years ahead of all its competition, technologically,
>and folks like IBM, Apple, and Atari will take at least 2 years to catch
>up to what the Amiga is now.
>
I am willing to believe this about Atari, but I would not be so quick
to count Apple and IBM out.  They both have enough money to do quite
a bit of research and development of new products.  Sure, IBM has been
conservative in the small computer market as far as what they sell,
but I wouldn't be too surprised to find out they have a Mac like or
Amiga like machine already developed, just in case it looks like the
market would be big enough for them.  So you might have to subtract
some from that 2 years.

>I not write.  However, from the E-Mail I get, Mac people want to be
>ignorant of the technology that is burying the Mac (don't post stuff to
>net.mac...), and Atari and Amiga folks LIKE MY STUFF (3 to 1).  I think

Oh hell, why don't we just get rid of all these stupid newsgroups and
post everything to net.general?  Look, the reason people on net.micro.mac
don't want to see a lot of Amiga discussion ( or ST discussion ) in
net.micro.mac is that that is not what that newgroup is for!  We come
over here to see the Amiga stuff, and we go to net.micro.atari for the
ST stuff.  How would you like it if mod.computers.sun was diverted into
net.amiga ( since a Sun is "better" than an Amiga )?
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