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From: taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.183216.29240@news.iastate.edu>
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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1991 18:32:16 GMT
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>How does this sound...Commodore should be bold, and add on-board SCSI to all
>Amigas built after January 1992. Across the line, except the A500C until they
>can afford to add it to a $500 machine. Then alot of places that sell Mac only
>SCSI drives would jump on the bandwagon of selling external SCSI's for Amigas
>as well... They could call them the A500PS, A2000S, and the A2500S. It would
>encourage A500PS owners to get Hard Drives, especially if it only costs $400
>for 100 megs...instead of $1000 for 100 megs that it currently costs with
>external controllers...Raise the price of the computers $50 if thats what it
>takes..People looking at A500P's wouldn't mind paying $50 extra if they know
>its saving them $400 in the future...

   You are correct one one point: all Amigas across the board from the highest
A3000 systems down to the lowest A500 systems should definately have on-board
SCSI interfaces.  Commodore could leave the hard drive out of the A500C, but
the SCSI interface should still there as standard hardware so that owners
could upgrade to hard drives very easily.  This is what Apple is doing with
the MAC Classic, and if this accounts for even a fraction of the Classic's
success, Commodore should do the same for their entire product line.

   In addition, all Amiga systems above the A500 should include SCSI
interfaces, hard drives, and display enhancers as standard hardware.  This
includes the A2000, which has become so underpowered and overpriced as of
late compared to the A500 below it and the A3000 above it that it creates 
a gaping hole in Commodore's product line.  
 
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