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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: And the winner is...
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Date: Wed, 31-Dec-69 18:59:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Dec 31 18:59:59 1969
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In article <1949@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> engst@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Adam C. Engst) writes:
> 
>    I'm really curious about something.  A number of people who rave about
> how wonderful the Amiga is particularly when compared to the ST also seem to
> have an ST.  This is strange enough - most people decide on one type of
> computer, buy it, and then defend it.  Yet these people are buying two
> expensive computers, using one solely and letting the other "languish in the
> closet."

Defending a computer is a strange concept.  Most people buy a computer with
the intention of using it, either as an end in itself or for some more or less
specific set of purposes.  Depending on the user's perspective they may find
either the Amiga or the ST currently unsuited to their purposes, or may conclude
that some features of the machine obstruct its utility.  The result is often a
machine set off in the corner and a blast of steam.

As for these offers of computers from disgruntled people, some are less than
completely serious, others are unsure of your sincerity.  I have a perfectly
nice TI99/4A system collecting dust in my computer room that I once made the
same kind of offer on, but when somebody tried to take me up on it, I found
that despite the fact that the thing was completely worthless, especially
next to the unix system next to it, I wasn't psychologically ready to accept
defeat and give it away.  Rationally this is silly, but anyone who drops the
money for one of these things, excpept perhaps a simple commercial transaction,
ends up making a strong, more or less irrational, emotional commitiment to
the machine, reinforced by the labor required to get the upper hand on the
thing.

As usual, this is just another request for tolerance and patience in the olde
computer wars.  You can be happy with what you choose or unhappy as pleases
you, but no need to get worked up about it.  To an outsider, it probably looks
like an Oldmobile owner and a Buick owner trying to argue that their car is
innately better than the other, with occaisional agreement that both are
probably infinitly better than the same model Chevy.

-- 
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