On 24-Feb-00,* Sealey, M.*, of Planet Eros, wrote these Wise Words:
>> ... It was from a German source. IIRC, the numbers
>> bandied about were only aboue 3000 world wide. To tell you
>> the truth, that news really depressed me.
>
> I sincerely hope you didn't beleive it: pre-order sales of
> OS3.5 hit around 8,000 anyway, and IIRC they're pushing
> 20,000 at the moment: there are probably a few hundred sitting
> in suppliers' warehouses, but they CERTAINLY sold more than
> 3,000 to customers.
What did they need to encourage them to go for the next level?
>> My family is REALLY pushing that I "get a real computer".
>
> Then get one. Buying a Pentium III isn't going to break your
> Amiga the instant you turn it on..
No one implied or stated that it would. Fact is, one usually
only has "x" amount of time, and I hate to spend time on a
machine I don't like. We DO have a Pentium 200MMX already
but it is the step-daughter's. It is about two years old, and
I use it at times when I cannot get onto a site because of
any JavaScript problem. I find the system not much faster
than my Amiga, but I do have to admit that the graphics are
a whole lot faster and "nicer". Yeah, I could splurge on a
graphics card for the Amiga, bur that will be at least $300
Canadian even if I only get an old Picasso II. The money is
just not there to support two systems and one just has to go.
I choose to have the Evil Empire be the one to go.
I like the friendliness of most Amiga people, yourself excepted
of course. : )))
I teach MAC usage at school, and even though I like the new
OS9, and the OS8.x iMacs are not bad either, I just cannot
stand something about the other systems. Maybe it is the
quirky way the Amiga does things compared to them, but I
get find the Amiga way of doing things a lot more intuitive
to my way of thinking. I prefer to stick with it.
Maybe when there are some BoXeR's out there, or other new,
faster, leaner, meaner Amiga's, I will get one of them. I can
always emulate the other systems, I guess. But, as I said, I
would rather use Voyager and the related programs, especially
PageStream, that the Amiga has. It takes money to upgrade that
to the MAC and Windows environment that I just do not have at
the time... maybe in two years!
Gil
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THOR2.5a, MUI3.8, MWB, Voyager3.xbeta AmIRC 2.0, AmFTP 1.65 (all reg)
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