Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!xios!xicom!alex
From: alex@xicom.UUCP (Alex Laney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore Flame  (One Blue and One Brown Eye)
Message-ID: <527@xicom.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jun 88 15:31:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: xicom.527
References: <3756@fluke.COM> <4085@killer.UUCP> <3783@fluke.COM> <269@sagpd1.UUCP>
Organization: Xicom Technologies, Ottawa, Canada
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Summary: mismatched drives are ok at home

In article <269@sagpd1.UUCP>, monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine) writes:
> 
> >2) "Part compatability".  All 2000 drives work the same, and are not 
> 
> There are a lot of us out here that have their systems set up where all
> visitors see them constantly. Face the facts, The AMIGA is a HOME computer
> and needs to present a GOOD apperance. Things like mis-matched drives are
> acceptable is a business environment but not in a home environment. I truly
> hope that the AMIGA grows to be a respectable business machine but CBM
> can not forget who is buying there machines now.

I have a 2000 that has a hard disk drive with black frontplate. That doesn't
bother me. My Amiga is not a stereo component, it's more like a whole system.
My stereo system has a multiplicity of brands, so my components all look
different. I suspect there are lots of people like me! My visitors can see my
stereo system. I don't think anyone of them has had any negative impressions,
I just don't have pretentious friends! :-)

If you want to buy completely matched components, you either have to do it all
at once, or buy from one supplier, which is usually unnecessary and 
uneconomic. If someday there is a ECDROM 3.5" drive, I probably wont care if
it has a purple frontplate!