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From: alex@xios.UUCP (Alex B Laney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A1000 -> A2000 expansion box?
Message-ID: <397@xios.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Mar-87 18:00:00 EST
Article-I.D.: xios.397
Posted: Tue Mar 24 18:00:00 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Mar-87 01:10:10 EST
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In article <1987Mar19.093351.14810@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> wagner@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Michael Wagner) writes:
>
>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.

I agree -- The Amiga people really deserve applause for creating a computer
that looks good as well as has `hacker appeal'.

A pencil holder! A keyboard `garage'! A cohesive outer design! The outer plastic
shell is definitely iffy (strength/shielding) - but the colour looks deeper
than on metal cases.

Too bad that C-A never wanted a piece of the expansion market. We could have
good looking card cages as well. (Note not really Commodore I'm talking about
here -- I mean C-A) Disclaimer-I haven't seem all of them. It's too bad the
Amiga people didn't design an internal card cage -- but that would have been
an unusual decision for a machine that was to be the ultimate game machine.

And the A2000 doesn't live up! You won't see the A2000 on Miami Vice. Now I'm
not a big fan of the Vice, but aesthetics count on that show, and it's neat
to see Amigas there.

When will Terminal and PC makers start putting keyboard connectors
on the front? Keyboard cables get chewed up otherwise.

And just think we have 7 doctors in Florida to thank for all this!

-- 
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