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From: walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Sasquatch Print
Message-ID: <167@sas.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Sep-86 10:09:22 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  8 10:09:22 1986
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In article <239@plx.UUCP>, ed@plx.UUCP (Ed Chaban) writes:
> 	Geez, I thought that the money hungry opportunists left with Schlemeil
> 	Trameil!!  Way to go amiga !!  Screw your existing customer base!!
> 	I have a machine that is about a year old and it's obsolete already!!
> 
> 	How about it? how do some of the rest of you in net-land feel?
> 	are you happy to know that the company you have been faithful to
> 	has no intension of keeping you compatable with future products! 
> 	My amiga is useless, finished, another PC-JR!!
Come on, you knew what you were buying last year! - a BRAND NEW machine, which
means you have to take all the risks and joys of being a pioneer!  If you wanted
safety in a machine, you belonged with a pee-cee clone!  I have advised non-
technical friends NOT to get an Amiga just for that reason.  Your Amiga is JUST
AS USEFUL NOW as it was when you bought it - how could it be otherwise, it's the
same one!  Anyone who buys a personal computer on FAITH that some product will
be forthcoming is a fool.
> 
> 	it's no wonder that Consumer Reports magazine called the amiga a
> 
> 		"HIGH TECH DOORSTOP"

Yes, CR did call the Amiga a "HIGH TECH DOORSTOP" - last December!  The reasons
was because there was no software base at that time, not because of the 
capabilities of the machine.  In the most recent issue, they have a very
comprehensive review in which they are very complimentary to the Amiga's
capabilities, NOW THAT SOFTWARE IS AVAILABLE.  Of course CR isn't going to
recommend an Amiga to its non-technical readers before the machine is
established, for the same reason I didn't recommend it to my friend!
> 		of my employer.  I WONDER OF CBM/AMIGA REALIZES THAT THERE 
> 		MAY BE OTHERS OUT THERE OF A  SIMILAR BENT !!!!!!!
And I'm sure that CBM/AMIGA realizes there will always be those who feel
ripped off by the vagaries of the personal computer marketplace.  I bought
my Amiga in March, just one month before the free monitor promo, and I have
never felt ripped off.  Do you expect a refund from Food Town because they
cut the price of Coke from $1.49 to $1.09 the day after you bought a bottle?
As Ann Landers would say, "Wake up and smell the coffee!"