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From: daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Questions and ces
Message-ID: <371@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Jun-86 14:08:17 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  9 14:08:17 1986
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> 2) My second question is to Commodore.  Why aren't you supporting
>    the Amiga?  I was very disapointed at the CES show yesterday.
>    You didn't even have any Amigas on display, only 64C's and
>    128.  How compatible will the 2000 be with the 1000? 

Well, I'm in now way representing Commodore's official news on this, but I
imagine that the Amiga is missing from CES for the same reason that you
don't see Apple or IBM at CES.  The Consumer Electronics Show is NOT a
public show (as you must realize, since you were there), but open to the
exhibitors, dealers, and press.  The kind of dealers that CES is for is the
large national accounts like K-Mart, Sears, and Toys-R-Us.  The ST is sold
in these stores, so is the C128 and C64.  Amigas, MAC, IBMs, etc. generally
are sold in Computer Specialty stores, and that's what COMDEX is for.  So 
the fact that the Amiga was not at CES doesn't reflect the level of support
for it.

> Note on CES:
>   It seems like Jack has done it again.  

You mean screwed the specialty store dealers?

>   I like the new 64C it looks very sexy.  Every one who has a 64/128
>   should get GEOS, It is great.
> 
>   Anton Vogelsang

You should see it run out of a RAM Disk.  And they say the Amiga is fast...


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