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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore Show News Report
Message-ID: <1454@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Feb-87 08:37:41 EST
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1454
Posted: Mon Feb 23 08:37:41 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 26-Feb-87 18:38:22 EST
References: <8702230649.AA29610@ingres.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <8702230649.AA29610@ingres.Berkeley.EDU> hatcher@INGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Doug Merritt) writes:

>I went to the Commodore Show in San Francisco Saturday, thought I'd
>mention some highlights. First off, the new Amiga's are not announced
>yet. I heard speculation that they won't arrive until June at the very
>earliest, and that the early announcement was designed to combat the
>recent Atari Mega ST announcement...

Ha-Ha...just about everybody except IBM, DEC and sometimes Apple shows their
stuff well before you can go out and buy it.  In any case, it's the Atari PC
and/or AT machines that are interesting, while the Mega-ST's are just more
of the "same but different".  Lead times in the computer business are long
enough that each company's new products end up being designed to compete with
the last generation of the competition, rather than head-to-head.

>Hardware manufacturers were quite displeased with the Amiga 2000. "It
>screws everybody indiscriminately, not just a few peripheral makers.

...how about the software and retail people?

>You can't plug *any* old products into it, not even the Mimetics digitizer.
>Even the video cables are incompatible!" Oh, well. Not that I doubt it,
>but keep in mind that this quote is a rumor. In fact, it is a hybrid of
>two different people's remarks, one of them not a h/w manufacturer.

Actually, the video cable and the external floppy are the same, while the
mouse ports have the same pinout, but are set up for a straight-in type
connector.  Serial and Parallel ports have been "fixed" so that they now
accept off-the-shelf PC style cables.

>Genlocks were in abundance at the show. Yes, they've finally arrived,
>as of just a few days ago. Presumably some distributors will have lots
>of them while others have none, as usual. I saw many being *sold*,
>not just demoed, by the way. Still no sidecar, still no AmigaLIVE!

Amiga-Live a.k.a. Frame Grabber is where the Genlock was at month or two
ago.  The Sidecar and the A2000 have a lot in common so you may finally
see some action in the that area soon.
-- 
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