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From: karl@sugar.UUCP (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: owning an Amiga and an ST
Message-ID: <619@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Sep-87 22:25:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: sugar.619
Posted: Tue Sep  1 22:25:52 1987
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Keywords: it's possible, you know.  preemptive censorship.

In article <1949@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> batcomputer!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."     . . .

Actually, it was pretty easy.  I thought the ST was cool and the Amiga was
vaporware.  After the Amiga finally came out, I knew it was the one I wanted, 
so I bought it too.  As for it costing a lot to do that, yeah, it does, but I
get a multitasking, DMA audio, reasonably high res graphics with hardware to 
draw lines and blit and 4.5 meg of RAM...a windowing personal workstation.

As for the ST, it broke shortly after I bought it, was fixed, used for a while,
loaned to a friend (sugar!peter), broken, fixed, given up on by him (he bought 
an Amiga).  I have, in fact, tried to sell it, in the want ads, at work and on 
local BBSes.  I asked $800 for a 520 ST with two 720K drives and the RGB 
monitor, Lattice C, the Metacomco assembler, and some games.  That's less than 
half what I paid about two years ago.  And yes it is, in fact, in the closet at
this very minute.

Oh yeah, by the way, I don't think it's particularly fair of you to post such 
a lengthy detailed slam to the net and then piously say "send responses via
email, don't start a war on the net."  Thus, you broadcast your message implying
that I'm a liar for claiming to own both machines to all who read this newsgroup
but instruct me to respond via email only.
-- 
...!soma!uhnix1!sugar!karl    "Life is wasted on the living." - Z.B. IV