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From: ed@plx.UUCP (Ed Chaban)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: I'm not such a bad guy!!
Message-ID: <242@plx.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Sep-86 23:56:01 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  5 23:56:01 1986
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I'm sure there are a lot of flames headed my way in response to my recent
postings (Sasquatch print)  I guess I made too much of an issue out of 
the footprint stuff.  What I was trying to say is that the amiga seems
to be having problems trying to decide what kind of computers it wants
to build.  Rather than target a group of users, amiga wants to be all
things to all people. This has made the amiga a machine with creeping
elegance as far as hardware is concerned.

Let me explain,

As some of you remember, the sidecar was originally called the "TRUMP CARD"
Now I understand that the sidecar will contain not one but TWO 5.25 drives
I don't need another 5.25" drive. One is enough thank you! this "Card" is
now an entire computer system.  

Furthermore, 512k is not enough for the amiga.  another 256k would be nice
but everyone in third party land is building 512k and bigger expansion units.
Cheap hard drives are nonexistent.  

Let's see..

Amiga unit I bought:           $2500
Transformer & drive:            $250  (now useless)
sidecar:                        $600  (I'll believe it when I see it!
					I think It'll be closer to $1000)
memory expansion:               $600 (1 MEG)
Hardcard:			$500
Decent Spreadsheet:             $250
			       -----
Total:			       $4700

We are now approaching the price of a Hyundai Excel or a YUGO.
(car or computer, Hmmm.. )  

All this from a company that was supposed to give us a computer
with the above features 6 months ago.

I have lost a lot of faith in CBM in recent months. Why not give us
existing customers a little break AMIGA?  I waited 3 months for
documentation and made 6 phone calls in regard to the same.
I still don't have the updated Lattice "C" I was promised
and am faced with the possibility of doubling my hardware investment
and buying a new desk.  I am the laughingstock of Mac owners everywhere.
My boss told me to use the company's Mac's to do my work.

Don't get me wrong, I still love this machine, its graphics especially it's
music capabilities.  But I need a cheap hard disk, a decent spreadsheet
(is Microsoft EXCEL in the works?) and PC compatability.  Unlike most
of the rest of the folks on usenet, I'm not a programmer I'm in marketing.
Genlock (whatever it is) is useless to me. 

How about letting me trade in my Transformer stuff and apply it towards
the Sidecar? I'll spring for the desk.

I'm sorry if I offended anyone on the net.  


Ed Chaban
Plexus Computers Inc.
Phone: (408) 943-2226
net: sun!plx!mts1!ed