From: root@rkamiga.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re:   EGGPLANT, IMPLANT, EMPATH, BLAZEPLANT...
Distribution: world
Date: 21 Nov 92 16:25:01 EST
Organization: Rick's Amiga

In article <vmz1=g#@rpi.edu> danaf@bray1a.its.rpi.edu (Frank R. Dana Jr.) writes:
>In article <root.02w9@rkamiga.UUCP>, root@rkamiga.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
>|> 
>|> External SCSI drives for the Mac have a pc board inside that translates
>|> Apple SCSI to real SCSI.
>
>The Amiga, on the other hand, uses it external to the drives. Which means you
>buy ONE controller card, and you can use SEVEN real SCSI drives...

Actually, the statement above was faulty memory on my part.

Their were some very early external SCSI drives for the Mac that had a
SCSI to ST506 controller inside and a Rodime 20 meg ST506 drive.  This
was back in the days when a raw 20 meg SCSI drive probably cost >$400.

>|> >Printer -- It sure as hell doesn't cost $1000 for decent Mac printer.
>|> >  300 dpi postscript laser printers can be had for less.  OK, it can't
>|> >  use a parallel printer without a relatively expensive adaptor box,
>|> >  but don't try and tell me Apple invented serial printers.  I have
>|> >  a serial printer at home that was designed before the Apple ][ was
>|> >  sold.
>
>WHERE can you get a postscript printer for under $1000??????
>
>|> A less than $1000 Apple laser printer uses TrueType rather than Postscript.
>
>Thank you for clearing that up. I was gonna run right out and buy an Apple
>laser! My HP IIp cost me $950 when it first came out, and it didn't even have
>enough MEMORY to print 300dpi! Forget postscript...

It looks to me like the bottom end of the postscript printer market hovers
around $1300.

>|> But don't blame Apple.  Adobe gets a $500-1000 license fee depending on
>|> what level of Postcript that a printer uses.
>
>That's sick.

They have the monopoly.

>|> >ADB -- OK, PC's don't let you hook up multiple keyboards.  This is
>|> >  different.  But, non-Apple ADB keyboards can be purchased for about
>|> >  as much as a good PC keyboard.
>
>Multiple keyboards? Gee, I can see where THAT might be useful... 8)

Actually, there is a card that allows multiple keyboards on a PC.

>|> >OK, the floppy port's different.  You win.
>
>Well, EVERY computer has a different floppy port...
>
>|> >I'm not sure about the video toaster, but it does have equivalent A-V
>|> >tools.  They probably do cost more, you're right.
>
>That is, from the latest information I've heard so far, patently NOT TRUE.
>Every computer has, at the top of its line, display options which meet and 
>surpass the Toaster's capabilities (yes, including the Amiga...), but NOTHING
>out there can (yet...) do all of the VIDEO (as opposed to display...) things
>that the Toaster can do!
>
>The Toaster killers are coming... they will most likely be for the PC first,
>and will probably cost $4000-$10,000. That's all rumour, of course...
>
>|> >-- 
>|> >Thomas Insel (tinsel@uiuc.edu)
>|> >  s-mail: 208 Saunders, 906 West College Court, Urbana IL 61801
>|> 
>|> --
>|> Rick Kelly		Rick's Amiga		Framingham, Mass.
>|> 
>|> 		think!unixland!rmkhome!rkamiga!root
>
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