At 15:50 -0800 12/15/2002, Kennedy Brandt wrote: >Good addition. I forgot about E-Machines.
>There was absolutely nothing good about the acquisition for SuperMac, other >than it being a costly lesson on why one maybe shouldn't purchase a >competitor. From the consumer point of view, while it probably was bad in the long run, in the short term, the Futura II SX went from normal retail of $450 to a clearance price of $250. That was a good price for a low end video card back then. :-) Kennedy, thank you for the additional detail. I had no idea that E-Machines was such a albatross. Their cards seemed to be engineered reasonably well. Or the Futura II line seems good enough. Do you have any memories from the end of Radius when they arranged for CRA Systems (AKA Radius Vintage) to take over their support obligations and gave (sold?) their remaining stock to CRA? Radius had been clearing out the Thunder 24/GT, arguably the fastest NuBus video card ever made, for about $499. When CRA took over the price went to $899. I may be off by $50 on those. It's been a long time. I had been bracing myself to buy one, but I waited too long. Very annoying. Jeff Walther -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
