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From: mwm@eris.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Status Report
Message-ID: <5943@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Tue, 17-Nov-87 02:06:03 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 17 02:06:03 1987
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Reply-To: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer)
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In article <2787@cbmvax.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
<First Hedley Davis blew his stack and told Mike to perform strange acts.
<Next Dave (hazy) Haynie lost his cool and launched remarkably juvenile flames.
<I'm probably next, especially if Mike keeps crowing about his putative effect
<on A2000 sales.

What? You mean you want me to tell people that Zorro I cards plug into
Zorro ][ and work with no problem whatsoever?

Sorry, I believe in telling people the truth. If it sells a machine I
like over one I don't, that's well and good. If it means someone buys
a machine I don't like over one I do - well, they want something other
than what I do. I'd much rather they be happy with a machine I can't
stand than unhappy with a machine I love.

<Have you considered writing a simple, cogent description of what you
<feel Commodore has done wrong by you, or the Amiga community and what
<you think Commodore should do about it, and then sending this missive
<to the people at Commodore who actually have decision making authority?

You can find what I think CBM should do about it in various postings.
Especially when someone asked me what I thought they should do. I'll
reiterat it here:

Best: Provide a connecter from a slot inside the A2000 (you choose the
slot) to the outside world that SOTS boxes will run on. No need to
insure that it works with things in the A2000 internal slots, thought
that'd be nice.

This is best because it provides a path for A500 users to move the
expensive part of their hardware investment to the A2000.

Not-so-good: Market an optional top for the A2000 that will hold Zorro
I cards.

CBM probably won't sell many of those. But it would indicate a real
intent to support customers who sank lots of dollars into A1000
hardware.

<If you want, e-mail me such a document, and I'll be glad to start it as
<high up the management chain as I think I can take the risk of flashback
<from any inflamatory or personal content. 

A very kind offer, but I'm not going to take you up on it. CBM will
either do the right thing or not - and probably make lots of sales
either way. I don't have plans to buy hardware from CBM again. Should
they surprise me by coming out with a machine as nice for it's time as
the A1000 again, I may change my mind. But they can do it - or not do
it - without help from me.

	Signing off,
	<mike
--
Round about, round about, in a fair ring-a.		Mike Meyer
Thus we dance, thus we dance, and thus we sing-a.	mwm@berkeley.edu
Trip and go, to and fro, over this green-a.		ucbvax!mwm
All about, in and out, over this green-a.		mwm@ucbjade.BITNET