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Subject: Re: Comments on the A2000
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Date: Wed, 4-Mar-87 14:55:44 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  4 14:55:44 1987
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mwm@violet.berkeley.edu(Mike Meyer) wrote:
>1) That keyboard: YUCH!

Reportedly, the 'feel' is better, and the ghosting problem is fixed.

However, keyboard layout is a religious issue, like editors.  Once
you find one you like it's tough to move to another one.  I *do*
wish you could put your own keyboard into the A2000, since I'm not
real happy about the layout either.  I like the numeric pad, though.

I've heard the mouse is cheaper (lower quality) too.  Just speculation.

>3) The A1000 is "transportable."

Put a handle on the A2000! :-)  Seriously, the A500 will be the winner
here.  At the BCS meeting Monday, RJ Mical (Father of Inhibition) said
the A500 will be "$150 more than the C-64."  I do think he was speaking
figuratively, however...I can't imagine an Amiga for <$300, although
you never know what the Wizards of Westchester will do for cost-reduction.

That in mind, if an A500 goes for <$500, it should be incredibly
popular (providing Commodore decides to TELL somebody).  Hell, it
beats buying a straight ASCII/ANSI terminal.

Maybe I'll buy two and use one as an A1000 terminal, and buy a nice
NLQ printer too, all for the price of an A2000.

Last night, while reading the BYTE article (did you read the part about
CBM having UNIX up in house already?  System V, alas...), I was telling
my wife about the A500, and said "maybe we should buy one for you to do
your word processing on."  When I said it might be around $500, she turned
from the A1000 (she was playing CLUE and had mg1a running on an overlapped
screen), looked at me somberly and said "yeah, but I want to be able to
do THIS (pointing at the display) ... can I do it with a $500 (she
remembers me spending $600 for my C-64 a while back) computer?

I smiled and said "Of course.  It's an Amiga."

..Bob
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Bob Page,  U of Lowell CS Dept.      ulowell!page,  page@ulowell.CSNET