Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!bellcore!ulysses!burl!clyde!cbosgd!gatech!akgua!usl-pc!jpdres10 From: jpdres10@usl-pc.UUCP (Green Eric Lee) Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: incompetent executives Message-ID: <272@usl-pc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 5-Jun-86 22:31:48 EDT Article-I.D.: usl-pc.272 Posted: Thu Jun 5 22:31:48 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 7-Jun-86 19:16:46 EDT Distribution: na Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette Lines: 70 Good news: Infoworld says that CBM has announced that they are designing an A-2000, and that it will definitely have provisions for a low-cost hard disk, low-cost IBM emulation, 1 megabyte built-in RAM, expansion card cage, and other Needed Things. Somebody else hints at Unix capability. If the Unix rumor is true, it may have a 68010 with empty MMU socket nearby. Maybe CBM's new head exec. knows what he's doing after all... Mr. Green? When does anybody ever call a scraggly 22 year old programmer "Mr."? Now, for responses about the responses: > From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP > CardCo 1 Meg expansion (aMEGA), list somewhere around $550. My dealer called CardCo, CardCo said it wasn't ready. > You've forgotten about what artists, musicians, > designers, engineers, broadcasters, housewives, architects, newspeople, > want. Business sales are over 90% of all computer sales in the Amiga price range. Surveyors etc. are not enough to keep my dealer in business. The success of IBM clones prove that Fortune 500 is not American Business. Small businesses are over half of all business. They want a machine that'll do what they need for the best price. A small company I worked for bought a Leading Edge when they saw that even a 64 helped them with their business. The complete Leading Edge, with 10 meg disk, costed $1995. A 10 meg disk for the Amiga costs $1599. Besides, others want more RAM and a hard drive too... think of how much space a 3-d picture produced by a drafting program takes up. Re: most people would rather be using the IBM emulator & 123 instead of an Amiga with 8 meg of RAM: The biggest customers of VIP Deluxe here are people who use IBM PCs at work and use VIP to eat their 123 files at home. 'Nuff said. They'd love lots of cheap RAM. > (around Christmas) C64s were in demand, though not quite in the > frenzy situation you describe. For the entire month of December and into January there was not a single C-64 to be found in Lafayette. ------ > From: jimm@amiga.UUCP > Regarding the Colonel Video story, no Amiga dealer is unable to get > product unless they are not credit worthy. I doubt that CBM executives know what their regional dealer reps are doing. One Monday, this dealer was in Arkansas buying Amigas on the grey market, cash, to sell to a supercomputer company. Hardly "not credit worthy". Also interesting: Rumor says Cray Research in Houston claims they can't get enough hardware information out of CBM to build an interface they're working on. As far as Federated, that MIGHT work out. But I've seen too many such places that have no technician, the girl in the camera department sells the computers, and they ship their broken computers to Alaska to get them fixed (Colonel Video in Houston ships theirs to Oklahoma, New Generation here ships their Sanyos and Ataris to Baton Rouge, etc.). > From: dillon@PAVEPAWS.BERKELEY.EDU.UUCP > Amiga, DO NOT REPLACE KICKSTART WITH ROMS!. I think they'll have to, to be more price-competitive with Atari. Sigh. --- Re: claims that cuts at Los Gatos will hurt development: People who leave C-A just because their boss got laid off are doing a great disservice to the Amiga and to us. Times are tough. --- > ihnp4!utzoo!lsuc!jimomura > OK Turkey, What you got against Des Moines, Iowa! :-) Maybe I should have said "Peoria". Aw shucks... layts go wach HEE-HAW! -- Computing from the Bayous, Eric Green akgua!usl!usl-pc!jpdres10 (Snail Mail P.O. Box 92191, Lafayette, LA 70509) Note: send mail to usl-pc!jpdres10@usl.UUCP or full path.