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From: rokicki@navajo.STANFORD.EDU (Tomas Rokicki)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Ultimate Computers
Message-ID: <830@navajo.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Fri, 12-Sep-86 02:46:45 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 12 02:46:45 1986
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Okay, I can't help myself.  Here is the first of many flames.

In article <251@plx.UUCP>, ed@plx.UUCP (Ed Chaban) writes:
> I don't give a SH*T about SOURCE BOZO!!!
> I need a machine to do spreadsheets,
> graphs, WYSIWIG Wordprocessing (With decent fonts) etc...
> 
> I AM A BUSINESS USER!!! I NEED A  BUSINESS MACHINE!!! NOT A HACKERS  
> TOY!! I MADE A MISTAKE, I SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT A  MAC!!!

You are right, you did make a mistake.  If you need a business machine,
you do not hop out and buy the latest hot rod computer; if you need a
reliable, easy to maintain family car, you do not buy a Ferrari.
The Amiga is currently the best hacker's machine on the market, bar
none, largely because of the support community and enthusiasm.  It is
not yet a business machine, nor may it ever be.

> By the way, some of you may be interested to know that I have received
> ONE (1) bid for my "For Sale" AMIGA.
> The bid ($1000) was about $500 low for my 
> tastes.  The reason I say that is that a fat MAC with an external drive
> (used system) is going for about $1500. It seems that my amiga is having
> real problems retaining resale value!!

A friend of mine just bought, new, from a dealer, mind you,
an Amiga, monitor, and external drive for $1000.  Why should
anyone pay more than that for a used machine?

I am sorry you made a bad purchase, but it is not the Amiga's
fault.  You bought it for what it could be, not what it was;
sort of like marrying someone, that strategy seldom works.

-tom