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From: richr@pogo.UUCP (Rich Rodgers)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: incompetent executives
Message-ID: <2534@pogo.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-May-86 19:43:30 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 30 19:43:30 1986
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In article <260@usl-pc.UUCP> jpdres10@usl-pc.UUCP (Green Eric Lee) writes:
>
>What's a great computer like the Amiga doing being marketed by a bunch
>of clowns like Commodore??
	No Comment

>
>Suggestions:
>  b) The hardware people should be working on low-cost hard disk drives and
>RAM expansions, not modems, or should be helping 3rd parties who do
>plan to bring out low-cost hard disk drives and RAM expansions (there
>are none now).

	There is no argument that the expansion architecture should have
been done long before now.  It is now completed tho' so you can expect to see
some companies coming out with exactly these items.

>  c) In conjunction with b) above, price the expansion bus addition VERY
>reasonably.
>  a) a cheap hard disk so that you don't have to listen to the
>floppies grind and
>  b) cheap mungo RAM so you can calculate spreadsheets that would make
>IBM folk green with envy.

Could you define what you consider "cheap".  I would really be interested.
I have a feeling that what you want is about 6 to 8 weeks away from hitting
the market.  A bit late, but the best that could be done under the constraints
of a changing hardware specification.

>-- 
>Computing from the Bayous,
>       Eric Green akgua!usl!usl-pc!jpdres10
>            (Snail Mail P.O. Box 92191, Lafayette, LA 70509)


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				Rich Rodgers

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