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From: mykes@3comvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: A wierd thought...
Message-ID: <531@3comvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Jun-86 19:17:30 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  5 19:17:30 1986
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Reply-To: mykes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Schwartz)
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In article <2482@ism780c.UUCP> tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) writes:
>In article <527@3comvax.UUCP> mykes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Schwartz) writes:
>>Here is a question, for the sake of discussion:  What if Tandy had bought
>>Amiga instead of CBM (or if Tandy and CBM got together)?  
>>
>
>a) It would not be called an Amiga.  It would be TRS-something.

would you believe the Tandy Amiga 1000?  They would probably keep the Amiga
name for recognition.

>
>b) It would cost twice as much.
>

Why?  Doesn't Tandy sell a PC clone for < $1000?

>c) When you bought one, you would get a card for a free battery
>   every month. :-)
>-- 

How many batteries does it take to power an Amiga?  :)

>Tim Smith               sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim || ima!ism780!tim

Seriously, there have got to be 4 to 5 times the number of Radio Shlocks to
current Amiga dealers, plus respectable (no comment:) dealers who are used
to demonstrating sophistocated hardware.  There are Radio Shacks that serve
towns like Livermore California and Podunk Iowa - towns that I find hard to
believe that have Amiga dealers.  I'd like to see Jack Tramiel run Tandy out
of business too (the way I see it, he left CBM in the mess it's in now, plus
he turned Atari into a $75Million company when 2 years earlier it was a
$2 Billion company with the C64 burying the Atari 800).  Atari would have to
start selling things like Armatron (a robot arm toy), stereos, TVs, and all
the rest of the electronic stuff that Tandy sells.  One last point: would the
Amiga be any less of a machine if it had the Tandy label instead of the CBM
label?  (I'd bet that a lot of business-types would actually think it was
a better one).

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