From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett)
Subject: Re: More AmigaWorld Lies
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 00:38:08 GMT

In article <bruce.0am5@zuhause.MN.ORG> bruce@zuhause.MN.ORG (Bruce Albrecht) writes:
>In article <1992Sep3.070214.21249@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
>>   My conclusion is that Mr. Barney has attempted one last flaming editorial
>>before bailing out of the Amiga community, and has done a blundering job of
>>it.  The response editorial by Mr. Barney was filled with more lies, 
>>innuendos, and double-speak than the original article, by far.
>
>Look who's calling the kettle black.  In the three years I've been reading
>comp.sys.amiga newsgroups, there's been nobody who has posted anywhere near
>the amount of falsehoods, speculation presented as fact, and general doom
>and gloom with respect to Commodore and the Amiga than you, Marc.  I've
>never seen an apology from you when someone from Commodore has bothered to
>correct your postings.  You usually just wait 2-3 months and repeat it as
>another of your "facts".

   I will apologize for stating that the CDTV is dead if and when Commodore
gives me convincing proof that the CDTV is still alive.  With the two people
most responsible for the CDTV gone from the company, and with the way the
CDTV is being marketed (hardly at all), one can hardly call the CDTV 'alive'.


>Even your claim of less than 1000 dealers is probably in error.  Not all
>places that sell Amigas are computer dealers, some are mass market retailers,
>like Montgomery Wards, some are video equipment companies, etc.  I'd bet I
>could find 20 places in Minnesota that sell Amiga hardware, and a lot more
>that sell Amiga software.  

   You state that I am probably wrong in my statement that there are less
than 1000 Amiga dealers in the U.S., and then artificially inflate the
number in order to prove me wrong.  A number of people from various parts
of the country have come to my defense on this one.  I now have solid enough
information that there are no places in the U.S. where the Amiga is thriving.
For there to be 1000 dealers in the U.S., there has to be someplace that 
has a whopping hell of a lot of them, and no such places have been named.

   BTW, I am talking about dealers, where Amigas are sold at higher than
normal prices in order to provide service, and where both Amiga hardware
and software is sold.  I am not talking about mail-order houses and I am
not talking about K-Marts and Toys-R-Us's.  
 
>Why don't you sell your Amiga, buy one of those wonderful IBM PC clones,
>and post to the PC groups.  We already know that the Amiga is a niche
>market, doesn't have all of the latest gee whiz technology, and is never
>going to replace the PC or the Mac.  We like it for what it has, and when
>we need a new computer, maybe we'll jump ship if the competition has what
>we want.  We don't need you to continue to sound the death toll, three
>to four years is long enough.

   What I want is a better Amiga.  I can more honestly call myself an Amiga
pioneer than 90% of the people who flame me for my messages.  I got my first
Amiga in March of 1986, only a few months after it started hitting the streets.
There are probably plenty of people at Commodore who ahve not been using 
Amigas as long as I have.

>--
>bruce@zuhause.mn.org
>Youth is wasted on the young.

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