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From: billd@crash.CTS.COM (Bill D'Camp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A1000 -> A2000 expansion box?
Message-ID: <917@crash.CTS.COM>
Date: Wed, 18-Mar-87 12:42:03 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 18 12:42:03 1987
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Reply-To: billd@crash.CTS.COM (Bill D'Camp)
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You ask why anyone would continue to make expansion products for the A1000,
why do companies continue to make products for things like the PDP-8?  
Because there are still people out there using the things.  With 140,000 to
150,000 machines out there, A1000 owners are hardly a small isolated group.

You were making a lot of statements about people who had never taken any
business courses spouting marketing bull, I think you should take a good
look at Commodore's balance sheet.  This company was a leading candidate for
chapter 11 less than a year ago, its creditors were clamoring for their money,
and the future of the company was in real doubt.  THIS is a company which
can afford to subsidize something?  I suspect that the bankers which you
mention as a source of funding for this subsidy would not look favorably
at something which is liable to affect near-term cashflow, and which
does not, as you claim, provide any certainty of additional sales.  If
you look at C-A's approach to expansion boxes, you will notice that none
of the products have their name on them, nor do they officially endorse
any of the available products, does this tell you anything about how
C-A feels about A1000 expansion products?  I mean this company changed the
specifications of the expansion bus after some third-party vendors had
already gone to market.  While I like my Amiga, and I continue to develop
software for it, I do not support you in asking C-A to do something which
does not make good business sense.  C-A can ill afford capitol outlays
of that magnitude, they are not a charitable organization, they are answerable
to their stockholders just like any other publicly held company, they would
not be exercising fiscal responsibility if they succcumb to your campaign.

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