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From: davef@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Dave Fiske)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga & Mindset
Summary: Available
Message-ID: <4235@brspyr1.BRS.Com>
Date: 9 Aug 88 20:12:30 GMT
References: <7958@cup.portal.com> <7979@cup.portal.com>
Organization: BRS Info Technologies, Latham NY
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In article <7979@cup.portal.com>, Chad_The-Walrus_Netzer@cup.portal.com writes:
> In a previous article  writes:
> )I was talking to a person I know who was telling me about his Mindset
> )computer. How Great it was and all... He said that there where MANY things
> )the Mindset could do that the Amiga could not even touch. Now if I am not
> )mistaken.. The Mindset is not even made anymore correct?? He said that it
> 	There is indeed a Mindset computer, and it does indeed do "alot" of the
> things the Amiga does... In fact, the Amiga designers most likely 'borrowed'
> some of the ideas that the Mindset first pioneered.  (RJ Mical mentioned this
> a while ago.) It was/is also a neat computer and is still around, although
> Mindset the company is not...  In fact, Mindset used to be located just down
> the road from HT Electronics, in Sunnyvale, on Maude Ave.  At least this was
> the case until about 3-4 months ago, when a new company finally moved into the
>  ..... 
> 	It is indeed true, and I would suggest you get your friend to show you
> the Mindset... You will be impressed, although the Amiga is seperior overall.
> (Multitasking, etc. besides the fact that they are still being made...)

Strangely enough, I was considering buying a Mindset recently, because there
was an ad in the May issue of Byte--a place called American Design Components,
62 Joseph St., Moonachie, NJ 07074, is selling them for $299!  I did a bit of
research, and it seems to be true that the Mindset did some pretty zippy
graphics stuff--one article even mentioned that some producers of TV
commercials with computer graphics were using Mindsets.

I decided against it because I could not find any recent articles about the
thing--most of what I located were about the time the Mindset came out, and
probably mostly based on manufacturer's press releases.  There was some
indication that the MS-DOS compatibility was not complete, and some references
to mistakes in the documentation that comes with it, and I decided it would be
wiser to save up and get an Amiga 2000, where there is more user-group and BBS
support.

If anyone is really interested, email me, and I can steer you to some articles,
but most of them were rather vague on specifics and some were in magazines long
since dead.
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