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From: gwe@cbdkc1.UUCP ( George Erhart  )
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Amiga Information
Message-ID: <1087@cbdkc1.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 08:22:14 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  9 08:22:14 1985
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In article <432@kontron.UUCP> steve@kontron.UUCP (Steve McIntosh) writes:
>Amiga stats:
>Operating System:
>
>Macintosh  style  with  pull down  menus, windows,  multiple screens and
>icons.  Unix-like DOS capable of true multitasking.  
>

I played around with an Amiga at a local computer store. The copy of intuition
that they had did *not* have any menus or icons. It was very UN-maclike, and 
very MSDOS-like. I was very disappointed that Commodore did not send out the
demos that they had at their opening to the folks in the field. My first 
impression did not convince me that the machine was worth buying. By the way,
the local dealer is quoting a $2400 for the Amiga, 256K expansion, second
disk drive, monitor and some unnamed software. This is a *special* bundled
package. A dealer friend of mine said that Apple was planning to drop the
price of the 128K mac to under $1000 for X-mas, and the 512K mac would drop 
too. (under $1300?) It sounds like there will be a price war around X-mas 
this year between the new kids in the supermicro market (Atari & Commodore) 
and the defending champ.

George Erhart