Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!wagner From: wagner@utgpu.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: A1000 -> A2000 expansion box? Message-ID: <1987Mar19.093351.14810@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> Date: Thu, 19-Mar-87 09:33:51 EST Article-I.D.: gpu.1987Mar19.093351.14810 Posted: Thu Mar 19 09:33:51 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Mar-87 06:15:29 EST References: <17641@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <186@dcatla.UUCP> Reply-To: wagner@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Michael Wagner) Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services Lines: 40 Checksum: 38818 In article <2822@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (No one lives forever.) Meyer) writes: >[This is a flame. You've been warned.] > >Now, what I _am_ pissed about is that the A2000 is, if anything, a >noticable step _backwards_ from the A1000. They [8086 bashing], >lowered the ergonomics of >the machine (no place to store the keyboard? yuch), and raised the >price over the A1000. Amen. The Amiga is the first machine I ever owned that had some aesthetics. I won't buy a machine without functionality, but it was nice to have a functional machine that didn't look like it was designed by a stamping-machine operator. The A2000 has all the aesthetics of my friend's PC Clones. Boxy looking. Looks like it belongs on a machine shop floor. Home appliances have to look nice to sell in the home. >Why were they wasting time adding marginal features/misfeatures, Actually, I like some of the new features. I just wish they hadn't tossed out so many of the old features. The place for the keyboard meant that one could tidy up one's desk. When you're talking about limited work space, that really matters. Not every Amiga is put in a dedicated workstation position. Certainly not in the home. And where does the genlock go now? But I like the keyboard and mouse connections nearer to where they are going to be used. >instead of working on something that's as far >ahead of the A1000 as the A1000 was ahead of the rest of the world in >'85? Sadly, I think that the answer to this lies in C-A's not having time to do a good job because of the time and money pressure they're in. > >