Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ncar!ames!mike
From: mike@ames.arpa (Mike Smithwick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CEBIT soreheads
Message-ID: <6494@ames.arpa>
Date: 26 Mar 88 09:15:42 GMT
References: <1661@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> <10182@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Reply-To: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP (Mike Smithwick)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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>Yes, Mr. Casey - you have hit the nail squarely on the head.
>Us loyal A1000 owners, whose purchases helped to SAVE Commodore, are
>now being $%#%$*@#'ed over for our troubles.  I, too, will not buy another
>Commodore machine. 

#define FLAME_ON TRUE

Well, I guess you'll never buy another computer in your lifetime if you
take that kind of attitude. When I bought my machine, I knew good-n-well that
I was taking risks. Risk #1 : As with any first model computer of a new
line, the first major inhancements would probably be go off the the upgrade
path. Risk #2 : C= almost bit-the-big-one which would've really made it 
major-hard to upgrade our machines. 

>I'm not against the A2000, or A2500, or whatever.  But DAMN it, they could
>make sure that we can upgrade. 

What's wrong with using the card cage from ASDG?? With that you should be
able to use most any A-2000 board with your machine. Ooops, I forgot, you're
not buying Commodore anymore.


>Well, Commodore, here's another customer you've just lost, and you can
>be sure that I'll not recommend the Amiga to anyone I know.

Now there's a logic-free argument for you. I remember hearing the same 
kind of whining from the first Macintosh owners because they felt that
Apple owed them a thousand bucks or a free memory upgrade or something,
for paying the (outragiously) high price. If they didn't want to pay that
they shouldn't have bought the damn things in the first place.

>}For example, how about the CEBIT announcement about enhanced graphics
>}chips being available sometime (with no interlace) for the 500 and
>}2000.  THERE'S A NUMBER MISSING IN THERE, COMMODORE.  HEAR ME???

I don't expect C= to pay my way. Nor do I expect IBM to continue supporting
the original PC, or C= to upgrade my Pet-2001.


>I hear and agree.  Unfortunately, I am not CBM.  Do they hear?
>Probably.  Will they do anything?  Doubtful.


*** mike ***

-- 
			   *** mike (Cyberpunk in training) smithwick ***
"After all, isn't our only real purpose in life merely to make the person
 next to us slightly more insane than we are?" - Me
[disclaimer : nope, I don't work for NASA, I take full blame for my ideas]