Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!xanth!ukma!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pro-pac.cts.com!tsouth From: tsouth@pro-pac.cts.com (System Administrator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: If not Apple 2, then AMIGA (not PC Message-ID: <8903251116.AA09130@crash.cts.com> Date: 25 Mar 89 09:41:26 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: pnet01!pro-simasd!pro-nsfmat!pro-pac!tsouth@nosc.mil Organization: The Internet Lines: 68 Re: > Date: Thu, 16 Mar 89 01:32:21 EST > From: Murph Sewall > Subject: If not Apple 2, then AMIGA (not PC > Sounds like too many MBA's thinking everyone must be like themselves > (or the person in the cubicle down the hall). This is sometimes a problem in the Navy, too. :) > Disaffected potential Apple // customers don't want a PC!! They'll be > much more likely to buy an Amiga (and if Apple's 3rd party developers > ever figure that out along with all it implies, look out!). You got that right! I've had my wallet looking at an Amiga 2500UX for a while now. Too bad Apple marketting contends I'll buy some shoddy old reject like the Mac SE when I could have a full-blown Unix system with a FREE news mailer for about $4000 even. Amiga people could really use some of the Apple programmers, though. I have yet to see one decent comms program on any Amiga, besides one running ProComm+ on the IBM card. > Odd that all the marketing types who don't know octal from hex worry so > much that if the // was a better machine it might cannabilize sales from > the Mac. Truely, but I have heard as much from persons like Roger Wagner and Bill Mensch _in person_ and I truly don;t think that they would be the type to spread rumors without any foundation... I'll not even mention the employees at Apple who have told me just as much. > Mac's are really nice if one needs to do a major financial > plan or crunch some serious numbers, but to much (if not most) of the > Apple // crowd Macs are BORING!! (or too expensive). Couldn't have said it better, Murph. Sorry to repost filler, but I hope that someone gets the point. > When the Amiga first came out the "smart money" thought it was nifty > hardware but believed Commodore's financial situation was such a mess > that it couldn't survive. Lo and behold, Ami now has a large enough > installed base to be taken seriously and it has staying power! Without dedicated people like Fish, Da Silva, Dillon, and others, the Amiga would have gone down the tubes. "Driving away people AND software developers (especially educational types) from the Apple market due to lack of support/speed/resources in the ][ family has got to change from the status quo", to quote an educational developer friend... Hiring people like Dave Lyons is one of the smartest things that Apple has done with manning. I may not see the rest of the hiring agenda, but I pray that the people are as gifted. Services from folks like Beagle Brothers have given the Apple a booster time after time. Let us hope they continue. > Murph Sewall > Prof. of Marketing Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET Todd South Interested Consumer (for now)... -- UUCP: {nosc, uunet!cacilj, sdcsvax, hplabs!hp-sdd, sun.COM} ...!crash!pnet01!pro-nsfmat!pro-pac!tsouth ARPA: crash!pnet01!pro-nsfmat!pro-pac!tsouth@nosc.MIL INET: tsouth@pro-pac.CTS.COM - BITNET: pro-pac.UUCP!tsouth@PSUVAX1