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| 4158.1 | What a fool | SHARE::DOYLE | | Fri Sep 28 1990 09:53 | 4 |
| If I had stock in his company, I'd be worried.
Ed
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| 4158.2 | | BAGELS::BRANNON | Dave Brannon | Fri Sep 28 1990 18:24 | 11 |
| re:.1
Depends on what kind of company it is. Considering that he
is interviewed in a Macintosh magazine, it isn't much different
from the sort of stuff you find in any system specific magazine.
Maybe they make add-ons for the Mac.
At least he's willing to consider DMA and multitasking as not toys
if Apple ships it :-)
Dave
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| 4158.3 | ego trips are expensive | SALEM::LEIMBERGER | | Mon Oct 01 1990 06:32 | 23 |
| Recently I had the pleasure of talking to a person that was looking to
buy an amiga for their bussiness. They needed an amiga because they
have ordered the toaster from NewTek. They spent a lot of time talking
down to me, after all they had a several hundred thousand dollars of
very high end video equiptment, and anything less than $4000 had to be
a toy. I had to bite my lip to say the least. This is a situation where
these people have put themselves up on a pedestal and only come down to
earth to talk with the likes of me when they have too. Of course the
ironic part is they have the order placed for the toaster,and will need
too buy an Amiga. They insists on the biggest,baddest system available
and said they know that it will take time to find the right
combination. I told them a 2000,with a 33meghertz or higher GVP
card, 8 meg of 32 bit ram,and a 200mb drive would be good. Of course I
suggested that they clear this thru Newtek for compatability. I did not
tell them I know people in the video industry that passed by the
$50,000 Crylon charecter generater they are so proud of for a $3000,00
amiga because the Amiga did more. I hope that when they finally get
their Amiga it will grind their egos to dust. CBM should have a special
model for people like this. Something along the line of a 2500 with 8
meg of ram for 8000.00 . I really believe it hurts people like this to
admit a system like the Amiga can do the job. This is because if they
do they have to admit what as__ they have been.
bill
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| 4158.4 | you got the idea | FASDER::AHERB | | Wed Oct 03 1990 21:51 | 5 |
| Commodore should offer a special deal to Mac users. Raise the price of
a amiga 2000 to $4000 so they wont call it a toy..And for the people
who would rather buy a new car instead of a $10000 give it to us for
$1300
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| 4158.5 | Huh? | LEDS::ACCIARDI | Probing the limits of adhesion | Thu Oct 04 1990 09:01 | 1 |
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| 4158.6 | I guess they really meant it | MSVAX::BARRETT | I will not instigate revolution | Thu Oct 04 1990 13:26 | 42 |
| Just came across this. You'll know why I posted it here when you read
both articles...
Article 67295
From: [email protected] (Murph Sewall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Murph's VAPORWARE Column for October 1990
Date: 28 Sep 90 03:57:30 GMT
Sender: [email protected]
[text removed]
Miniature Production Studio.
Newtek Inc. of Topeka, Kansas will offer a $1,595 VLSI board
named the "Video Toaster" for the Amiga Computer. When used
with Newtek's point-and-click Light Wave software (bundled
with the Toaster), the Amiga becomes a miniature production
studio for less than $5,000 that can perform numerous
editing functions at a professional level. Newtek's Toaster
is a video switcher, effects generator, dual frame buffer,
and character generator with a 16.8 million color, RT-170
resolution NTSC output. The largely intuitive New Wave
software is accessible to users without specialized video
training. - InfoWorld 3 September
Video Explorer.
A professional quality video card for the Macintosh from
Intelligent Resources called the Video Explorer is scheduled
to ship early in 1991. The Video Explorer allows digital
special effects such as blending, mixing, and fading of
multiple live and recorded images as well as standard fades,
wipes, and dissolves. At "under $10,000," the card is
somewhat more pricey than Amiga's Video Toaster.
- InfoWorld 17 September
I think I'll keep to my lower priced toys.
Keith
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| 4158.7 | | BAGELS::BRANNON | Dave Brannon | Thu Oct 04 1990 17:36 | 9 |
|
remember the A500C and A500P, what CBM needs an A3000M priced at
non-toy prices, say whatever the eqivalent mac goes for. It would
help if it was done in some sort of limited edition plastic color,
and had some famous signatures on it. The pricing and marketing
would be the new stuff, they already did the plastic and signatures
with the A1000.
Dave
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| 4158.8 | It works for OS/2 too... | NAC::BRANNON | value added | Thu Oct 04 1990 18:41 | 10 |
| I was recently looking at preconfigured PC DECstations packages that
had minimal configured systems with DOS bundled in and full to the
gills systems with OS/2 bundled in. Maybe that's the approach we
need. An A3000M with 8MB and a 320MB disk (or larger). That should
drive the price up to acceptable Mac levels... Seems to be needed
for OS/2 users too...
regards,
dennis
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