Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!glacier!well!mitsu From: mitsu@well.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: A wierd thought... Message-ID: <1287@well.UUCP> Date: Mon, 16-Jun-86 22:32:15 EDT Article-I.D.: well.1287 Posted: Mon Jun 16 22:32:15 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 19-Jun-86 07:55:56 EDT References: <527@3comvax.UUCP> <2482@ism780c.UUCP> <531@3comvax.UUCP> <288@chr Organization: Whole Earth Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Lines: 44 onon.chronon.UUCP> Sender: Reply-To: mitsu@well.UUCP (Mitsuharu Hadeishi) Followup-To: Distribution: net Organization: Whole Earth Lectronic Link, Sausalito CA Keywords: Business marketplace In re: selling the Amiga to business users . . . It is a myth that the only people who use computers or buy them are business users. In fact there are *many* more people in the home and in the schools who buy and use microcomputers; the numbers far exceed that of the business market. The problem is that the machines for the home market that sell well (the C-64/128) are *very* low in price; nonetheless, it is not self-evident that you must cater to business to make a sucessful machine; there are artists, musicians, families, children, professionals, students, academics, playful people, as well as businesspeople. If the machine is useful enough or improves their life enough, they will buy it, and it need not do 500x1000 spreadsheets nor need it be as fast as a VAX (although the Amiga can do and be both.) Out here in the Bay Area the Amiga is selling like wildfire and every day there are crowds around the machine, eager faces wanting to do more with a computer than plot pie charts. The Amiga is the first computer that can even begin to address the potential of the personal computer; before this machine, to speak of personal computers was to speak of word processing, spreadsheets, and data bases. "Who needs multitasking?" "Who needs 4096 colors?" "Who needs windows, who needs 8 megabytes of memory, who needs fast graphics . . . " Try "Who needs more than 64K? Who needs something better than WordStar?" "Who needs anything more than Visicalc?" You can never have too much memory or speed; you can spend too much, however, and we all hope the price point of the Amiga comes down soon. The Amiga redefines what a personal computer can do; let's not hold it down to the limitations of the past. -Mitsu (mitsu@well.UUCP so-to-be @harvard) P.S. The Amiga with the CSA 68020 at 14 Mhz matches a VAX 11/785, and with VIP Professional and a couple meg of RAM will do a 500x1000 spreadsheet for those who are interested. Combine the two above, and you have a computing engine that will blow away an AT without blinking an eye. (Use the 68881, and it will blow away an 11/785.)