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From: mwm@MICA.BERKELEY.EDU
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Subject: Re: CBM and upgrade paths ( My two cents ).
Message-ID: <8711130930.AA09750@eris.berkeley.edu>
Date: Fri, 13-Nov-87 04:30:02 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 13 04:30:02 1987
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In article <21759@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Bryce  writes:
<In article <5883@> (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer) writes:
<<
<<...Let's see - have I killed any Amiga sales? Probably, but I was doing
<<that before there was an A2000 to bitch about....
<<...All I did was describe the Zorro I -> Zorro ][
<<change. I carefully pointed out that the cards would work in either
<<bus, but if you put it in the wrong one, you'd have to run with the
<<cover off. Since these people normally deal with serious machines,
<<that was quite sufficient...
<
<Mike, *you* have the form factor problem.  Anyone who buys an
<A2000 now does not.  There are more Zorro II cards than Zorro I.

Look again. I didn't tell anyone that they - or anyone else, for that
matter - would have a form factor problem. All I did was tell them
that CBM had changed the form factor.

Zorro I isn't merely a non-issue, it's history. Those sales I've
killed by telling people about the form factor would have been to
people who learn from history. That's why the sales died. I've *never*
told any of the people involved why the form factor change was a bad
thing. Never had to - the usual reaction ("Great. Let's f*ck
everyone." or "So CBM still has a death wish?") precludes it. 

	<mike
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