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Subject: Re: Mac vs. Amiga
Message-ID: <1532@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 24-Jan-87 13:10:30 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 24 13:10:30 1987
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Summary: Another reason to avoid the Mac

In article <1336@navajo.STANFORD.EDU> billw@navajo.STANFORD.EDU (William E. Westfield) writes:
>In article <1525@lsuc.UUCP>, jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) writes:
>>      It may be *safer* to buy the machines where the "excitement" is because
>> that's where the most creativity tends to be.  In fact, in retrospect, this

...

>Ahh, but there have been lots of computers that generated "excitment"
>when first introduced, but did NOT succeed:  the Lisa, the Apple ///,
>and the coleco ADAM, to mention a few.

     Ah, right.  But the Lisa and Apple /// suffered from Apples penchant
for absolutely dizzying prices.  This is at the heart of why I can't see
buying a Mac.  A Mac would be a nice computer at say, 1/2 the price of
the Atari ST or the Amiga, but at *more* than the ST?  Rediculous.

     As for the Coleco Adam, it suffered most because of underdevelopment.
The disk drives were late in coming.  The tape drives might have had a
chance if they had gotten them to work properly before the price of disks
dropped through the floor.  I was using a CP/M machine as a backup computer
up until last year when it died.  If I hadn't decided to replace it with
this Atari specifically for the sake of running OS-9 68K, I'd have had it
repaired and I'd still be using it.