Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!heimat!sneakers
From: sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: detachable keyboards and the A500
Message-ID: <2930.AA2930@heimat>
Date: 14 Sep 88 02:20:14 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Sneakers Computing
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In Message <39828@linus.UUCP>, eachus@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Robert Eachus) writes:

>     Amiga 500P Portable version of Amiga 500 with combination battery
>pack/battery charger/power supply to replace the current power supply
>unit, and a choice of flat screen displays.

  Of course this unit has 1 3.5" floppy, a 40meg built in HD, autobooting
  from 1.3 ;-), min 3 meg memory, built in 2400 modem, external SCSI port,
  and all the ports currently on the 500. Oh yea id prefer a built in
  battery with external power supply/charger. Guess what im saying is a
  "Laptop" and not just a "Portable".

>     The portable would sell to all  Amiga owners who travel, the 1200
>would fill the  niche of (and replace) the  1000, and  the 3000  is of
>course for the best of the best of us.  (Or those to  whom money is no
>object.)

  Or to those who find a laptop to be a welcome (needed?) addition to their
  line of hardware. I use a Zenith MS-DOS (I know... boo... hiss...) so
  I can spend some time in the living room with the family instead of in
  front of heimat all the time. It works well for telecommunications (has
  a built in 2400 baud modem), writing 'C' code or just reading the net ;-)
  But id trade it in on a LapTop Amiga today yet! 

>     Actually,  there is a major  truth buried  in   this.  I have two
>Amigas, my brother has two Amigas, do you have two Amigas?  There is a
>substantial segment  of  the Amiga owner community   who would like to
>replace as  many  of their computers as  possible with  Amigas. Unlike
>some markets, the Amiga community is not saturated at one per customer
>at any one time.

  Boy am I glad I just sold my Amiga 1000 because I had 3 Amigas and I
  don't want to be over the maximum limit. Todays average family (or is
  that Amiga family ;-) has:

       2 cars
	   1 truck
	   1 child (boy or girl)
	   1 pet (dog or cat)
	   3 phones (1 cordless)
	   2 phone numbers
	   4 tv's
	   2 Amiga's
	   Couple of hundred (thousand ?) dollars of old and outdated computer
	   and electronic items.

  Oh yea, all this is more of a dream than a request. I don't want to start
  a series of replies explaining why my dream laptop is just a dream. Ok?

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