Conference hydra::amiga_v1

229.0. "Bit Bucket" by CHEF::ACCIARDI () Mon Dec 22 1986 08:17

    I stopped into the new Bit Bucket store in Sudbury MA on Saturday
    to look around.  It is a nice littles store that sells Amiga, 1040ST
    and a few clones.  They have tons of software for the Amiga and
    ST at pretty good prices.  I bought Deluxe Music for $76.00
    
    The store seems to be pretty Atari-biased, at least two of the salesmen
    were, but one saleswoman was Amiga-biased.  However, they are very
    open-minded, and said that if a customer is looking for graphics
    and sound, they will steer him to Amiga.  The Atari guys claimed
    that the ST ousells the Amiga 3-1 at both Bit-Bucket stores.  But
    the same salesman who told me that also swore that 3 out of 5
    households in Europe have an ST computer.  150,000,000 STs???? 
    He said this with a straight face...I reminded him of Atari's stock
    prospectus, and he felt that that document was somehow in grave
    error, he was sure of his facts.
    
    However, I did my good deed for the day, and convinced one wavering
    customer that he should consider the Amiga.  He went and asked his
    wife for more money.... :^)
    
    I stopped to play with a color ST, and I am convinced more than
    ever that the Amiga stands head and shoulders above it.  Some programs
    come to an absolute halt by merely moving the mouse!!  And the floppies
    are slower than the Amigas, even the sales guys admitted that. To
    it's credit, they had an Atari hard disk hooked up, and they were
    transferring color pictures to the screen with blinding speed.
    
    Atari seems to have pulled a fast one with the color monitor.  Earlier
    ST color monitors displayed such beautiful 80 column text that I
    was jealous, and went and bought a Sony.  Well, the display they
    had hooked up was almost as bad as the Amiga 1080 monitor.  Text
    was washed out, colors were not as vivid, etc.  
    
    All in all, it is a good store with a very good software selection.
    They had a pile of 1.2 packages, World Games, Dpaint II, DMusic,
    Pagesetter, etc...If you carefully filter what the Atari salemen
    say, you can have a good time there.
    

    Probably 3 out of 5 households with personal computers.

    4 out of 8 households in Europe have bidets too.
    
    As for the color monitor quality:  it was probably out of adjustment.
    I doubt that a manufacturer would lower their standards on something
    that they are rated so highly on.
    

    DELUXE MUSIC!?   DID YOU SAY  * * D E L U X E  M U S I C * * ! ?
    
    Sorry to shout, but I though DM was not coming out until the
    first of next year.
    
    Where is this place and do you have their phone number?
    
    -jim

    Memory Location had a few copies on Saturday, too.
    

    re: .3
    Italy - Europe
    90% of the houses have bidets.
    No more then 20% of households with computer got Atari. 50% of
    them has 
    		Commodore 64
    and if I know my countryfellows Amiga will outsell Atari.
    
    Disclaimer: We are not Europe. Just a part of it !  :-).

    How many of those households have RoyalFlush bidets?

    Regarding the ST monitor, I am told that the early STs were shipped
    with Hitachis, which would account for their terifficness, but that
    JT & Co. later went to Goldstar, the famous Korean Shipbuilder,
    VCR maker, and Tuna fish company.
    
    The video quality was still good, but go see for yourselves, it
    is nowhere near as good as the earlier ones.