Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ihwpt!ihnp4!cord!nsw
From: nsw@cord.UUCP (Neil Weinstock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga public impressions
Keywords: new machine old user
Message-ID: <608@cord.UUCP>
Date: 25 Oct 88 21:32:16 GMT
References: <12626@eecae.UUCP> <1377@neoucom.UUCP> <12722@eecae.UUCP>
Reply-To: nsw@cord.UUCP (Neil Weinstock)
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In article <12722@eecae.UUCP> conklin@eecae.UUCP (Terry Conklin) writes:
>There are all sorts of wonderful products out there, Browers, DMouse, ConMan,
>etc. which can fix many of the usabilty faults in the system. However, I 
>PURPOSELY have NOT gotten them, and DELIBERATELY avoided the net as much as
>I could force myself to (no comp.sys.amiga) such that I would NOT be aware
>of these products.
> 
>Why? Because I was specifically attempting to identify the first reactions 
>as a new user. New users, the real people, walking into stores and looking at
>the 2000 in the local shopping mall, dont GET those things. The store owners
>dont know about the stuff in depth, and it's just not part of the machine.

I've had my machine for 4 months now and I'm still finding out about some of
these programs.  They make a big difference on first impressions.  I have never
been a fan of the way Workbench works, and it to some extent slowed my decision
to get an Amiga.  Then, one day, I got Dmouse.  The increase in pleasurability 
in just doing basic stuff was so great that I felt I had gotten a new machine.
Any dealer that is showing Amigas without Dmouse or Mach or some other such 
utility, for example, is not putting the Amiga's best foot forward.

>CBM has demonstrated considerable post-Tramiel versatility. Is it conceivable
>that they could put together a special Public Domain disk to ship with the
>machine? Micro-EMACS came with it, so it's not that big of a leap.

How about a couple of disks?  It would of course be nice if the authors of
the software got a little "reward" for such a thing, but either way.
Speaking of which, what ever happened to the Goldfish disks?  Have they been 
updated periodically?  It seemed to me that they were the answer to this 
problem, though I've heard zilch about them lately.

Hey, I think a lot more stuff should be bundled with the machine just in
general, like an AmigaDos manual, for instance (wow, radical idea).

>Steve Jobs and I think alike? Is that good? For either of us?

Yikes.

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