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From: mjw@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Witbrock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The trouble with the Amiga
Message-ID: <21@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Fri, 12-Dec-86 16:43:16 EST
Article-I.D.: f.21
Posted: Fri Dec 12 16:43:16 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 15-Dec-86 06:38:45 EST
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Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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Keywords: universities, amigas, freebies

In article <545@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> ralph@ATRP.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Amiga-Man) writes:
>Oh Commodore...if you only seeded Amigas here at MIT like apple and ibm do,
>things would really get rolling..... .    MIT sells poor unsuspecting
>freshmen IBM's and Apples at special discount prices without even informing
>them of the Amiga and its capability......wanna work out a deal ????
>Our Amiga group here is already 90 strong, with no incentives at all.
>
>                                        Ralph,
>                                        A Gradual Student at MIT


I couldn't agree more. Here at CMU, apple and IBM sell their _things_
(I need a @distain() text attribute) at ridiculously low prices. Hence,
there are still people here that think that IBM PCs (and RTs) are pretty
neat ideas. There are rooms and rooms and rooms and rooms of macintoshes.
Despite this, the people who are interested in music and art are getting
Amigas on grants...

If commodore started giving away amigas at really cheap prices at the
computer store (say 500-800$) lots and lots and lots of people would
buy them. These people can hack, boy can they. Lots of nice software 
would appear. Lots of people would get Amigas recommended to them.
Amigas would live forever and conquer the world .... Kommodore Kommodore
uber alles..

...I really do think that if Commodore sold discounted Amigas at a few
select places (CMU, MIT, Stanford, UCB might be a good start) they 
would be more than repaid in increased quality software, and increased
market penetration when we leave to go and decide computer buying 
policies for schools, universities and industry.


---- I'm impartial, I already got one. I waited 5 years (after my 
superboardII (bless its little cotton socks)) to buy a computer I 
could respect. Amiga was the first one that appeared.

                    michael witbrock - another gradual student.
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no sig file. Heaven forbid that I should share any opinions with CM.