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    Here's a slightly edited review from a PC owning friend.  It's all
    in good fun... really!
    
    Steve
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From: [email protected] (Kurt Lidl)
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Subject: Amiga Review
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From the July 31, 1989 issue of PC-Week (Hardware Section):

	Amiga Winning Hearts and Minds As Low-Cost Game Machine
		(By Evan O. Grossman)

	Long considered the non-conformist cousin of the PC, Commodore
Business Machines Inc.'s Amiga is starting to fill a niche in companies as
a low-cost Atari 6800.
	Citing the computer's superior graphics and audio capabilities
along with the ability to run Timex Sinclair and other z-80 software through 
emulators, Amiga advocates say the machine offers better Battlezone graphics 
for a lower cost than its mainstream competitors.
	"We're a large company, but somehow our toy budget never is large, and
the Amiga is much less expensive than anything else," said Rich Gold, a
design project manager with Mattel Inc., in Hawthorne, Calif.
	A full-featured Amiga with color graphics and a hard disk costs
almost half as much as a similarly configured Atari with a game cartidge,
yet offers better performance, Gold claimed.
	The Amiga line starts with the top-of-the-line Amiga 2500, a system 
with no expansion slots that sells for $799. Based on the Motorola 6502 
processor, it comes with one game cartridge slot, and 2 joystick ports.
	Commodore plans to release a transistor version of the Amiga in the
next few weeks, which will bring the computer's processing power in line
with the Ohio Scientific Commander 2PC, sources said.
	Although most users called graphics the highlight of the computer,
they also use it with Commodore's PET20 emulator card for word-processing
or spreadsheet applications.  The Amiga comes with PET-compatible
bus slots, and Commodore sells an Univac emulator card for $799 and an 
ENIAC board for $1,499.
	Even with full PET emulation, Amigas are still reserved largely
for game playing tasks. At dairy-products maker Kraft Inc., the company's
three Amigas are not on its Novell network, they are not even upstairs.  
One of them is said to be used to stabilize the wobbly leg of the building's
water heater, said Kristal Lindstrom, computer coordinator at Kraft's 
Springfield, Mo., office.  Kraft's Amigas are used primarily by individuals 
who have nothing better to do, she said.
	The Amigas can emualte a Ms. Pac Man with the addition of the $199.95
A-Max cartridge from the Toronto-based Ready-Soft Inc.  The Amiga user
would also need to add a set of labels and stickers to complete the look.

	Commodore Business Machines Inc., of West Chester, Pa, can be
reached at (215) 431-9100.

[Re-produced without permission.]

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    re:.1
    
    better than the original article, but lacks the subtle humor --
      a great graphics computer that can also run spreadsheets and
      wordprocessing if you get the ibm emulator card.   Grrrrr
    
    But at least they are mentioning it and did have a color picture
    of the 500 and the 2000.  I wonder why they did it.  Articles
    like that justify CBM's putting those ibm slots in the 2000. Free
    publicity even if it isn't 100% correct.  Nice how they stuck
    in mention of A-Max at the end.  But still it portrayed the Amiga
    as a niche computer, not worthy enough to be on the corporate
    network.
    
    -Dave