Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!tekig5!wayneck
From: wayneck@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Wayne Knapp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: My Monthly I Love My Amiga Posting
Message-ID: <3083@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM>
Date: 2 Aug 88 18:55:57 GMT
References: <3467@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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In article <3467@polya.Stanford.EDU>, rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) writes:
> 
> Don't get confused about a pile of hardware trying to be a Mac II.
> The B2000 was designed specifically to accept the 68020 and flicker-
> fixer boards; they are not hacks in any way.  Rather, they are a
> very laudable mechanism Commodore has used to make the 2000 accessible
> to a wider audience.
> 
You are right.  I don't really mean that these 68020 and flicker-fixer 
boards are bad designs or poor solutions for the people that want them.
In fact I'm all for slots and boards.  The point that you can buy a LOT
of Amiga hardware for the price of a Mac II is well taken.  Thank you for
pointing that out.

Still I really feel that the average joe looking for a Mac II level system
won't know or will be scared away by what one has to do to bring the B2000
up to the 68020 system.  So I still think that the point is valid that
there is a new high end system that is needed to keep the Amiga in the
running and upto date.  Maybe even just a B2000 with the cards already 
pluged in, but it has to clean and simple if it is going to give the Mac II
a run for its money.  Making the guy do the plugging himself is the kludge,
not the hardware itself.  I wasn't clear on that before.

I really like the Amiga. (true I don't love it)  I'm still waiting to see if
it is going to really fly for the long term.  It looks great now, but so 
did Atari St a couple years ago.  As Amiga owners it is too easy to believe
that the rest of the world knows what we know.  I bet a awful lot of Mac
buyers have no idea what can be done with an Amiga.  Where can you hear
about Amiga other then Amiga groups and rags?   So if the solution involves
much knowledge at all I think a large number of sales are already lost.  I
don't think very many potential Amiga owners have net access.

                                   Wayne Knapp