This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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RE: getting an 2.2 mgeg Amiga file over to an IBM service bureau? Do you have a bridgeboard? If so, you could just backup the file (using MS-DOS 5.0 backup command) to IBM formatted floppies, and let the service bureau restore the file to their hard disk. If you don't…
> Why does the stock price necessarily go up if there's rumors of a > takeover? I'll take a shot at answering this one. A purchasing company must offer a premium, and usually a substantial premium, over the current market price because the purchasing company is buying so many shares.…
Business Publishing!
Message #46396
I was pleasantly surprised today when the January 1992 issue of Business Publishing (formerly Personal Publishing) arrived. The lead article was "Shopping for Something New? Check out the Amiga, Atari, Unix, NeXT". For a magazine that focuses almost exclusively on the Mac and IBM platforms, the part of the article…
> At the time C= purchased Amiga, Jack Tramiel was gone from C= for about a year.. Was it really that long? I thought Jack got the axe sometime in the time frame Nov. 1984 – Jan 1985. If you're correct, I think that would push Jack's firing back to…
We had a four store chain that exclusively showcased the Amiga some years ago. Commodore, or it's New England representative, came up with some kind of grand promotion where the chain bought a truckload of Amiga equipment (for the A1000 at the time), and had a weekend where representatives from…
> Maybe it's Connecticut. Well, if it is here, then all I can say is that computer companies are missing a golden opportunity. Many companies have their corporate headquarters here. With regard to the Amiga, I can tell you that the platform is dead throughout the entire New England area,…
Commodore was my first stock purchase. I bought it in late December 1984, when it became known that the company, under Jack Tramiel, was planning to ship two new computers: the C-128 (stated ship date – January 1985; actual ship date – about August 1985) and the Lorraine (stated ship…
Okay, okay… I'll defer on this point, especially considering your experience and knowlege in the area of law enforcement. I don't see enough of a market for an Amiga laptop anyway, unless they'd sell like hotcakes in Europe for some reason… – via Whap!
RE: software license of Mac… Interesting. Why doesn't Apple just get all of ReadySoft's Amax registration cards and arrest the entire lot of us? 🙂 – via Whap!
Well, I'm just an old 'Mom and Pop' accountant; all I need is something lightweight to bring to a client's to record journal entries. A laptop battery would be near useless to me. I don't do planes… – via Whap!
Trevor, just to make sure, the country we're talking about is the U.S… Just wanted to be sure we're speaking the same language here, as CI$ also goes out in England. Until someone shows me CONCRETE EVIDENCE that U.S. Amiga sales are rising, I will not believe it. European Amiga…
I hereby would like it to be known that I have no need for a laptop Amiga. I want a laptop, but it will have to run professional accounting and tax programs, which leaves the Amiga (and Mac) out… – via Whap!
I didn't mean to ruffle any feathers when I said the Amiga is dying in the U.S., but I meant it. In the state where I live in (Connecticut), I only know of two surviving authorized Commodore Amiga dealers. There may be a couple of others, but they don't push…
> isn't the whole point of a clone to 'do it cheaper'? The whole point of third party vendors is to fill in gaps that the manufacturer cannot supply… That is how Compaq got started. Their luggables were not cheaper than equivilent IBM units, but they filled in a niche…
So I guess the question is, "If I decide to sell an Amiga laptop sans chips, and my customers buy the chips and operating system separately from Amiga dealers, am I, or my customers, breaking the law?". Another interesting question arises, "What makes an Amiga computer?". If you buy all…
Ben, your points on making an Amiga laptop are well taken; where I disagree is only with your contention that a portable Amiga has to have a battery. By eliminating a battery, you'd save $50. -$100. in manufacturing costs. The Amiga tends to be a multimedia machine; what you you…
Why does anyone have to go to the expense of designing custom chips? If C= doesn't want to play ball with a laptop company, why doesn't the laptop company just go the AMaxx route? Design a circuit board that accepts Amiga chips, and let the dealers outfit it with the…
> Bought it low at 12.5… You could have bought it lower last year at 5… But I'm not chiding you. I invested in Commodore stock some years back and lost enough money on it to buy an Amiga 2000 (pre-1992 price, plus sales tax :-). Will Rodgers said that…
> Take over rumors have floated around before… Yes they have, but no one with the reputation of Dan Dorfman said it. My brother-in-law follows the stock market very closely (with his Amiga, even!!!) and told me, "When Dan Dorfman talks, people listen". And apparently they do, since Commodore was…
Commodore Stock Up
Message #44339
Surprisingly, not everyone is trashing Commodore this holiday season. Consider the following: A recent article from Dow Jones/News Retrieval stated that Commodore stock shot up more than 22 percent IN ONE DAY, December 23. The price rise was attributable to columistist Dan Dorfman in USA Today and CNN/CNBC, who said…
> RE: the Dell ad… That's probably a 486SX, right? A 486SX is a great chip for Intel, but not so hot for the consumer. I think you'd do better with an 40 mhz 386 and pocket the change… But the point you make with the A2000 being too dang…
I THOUGHT I got a bit more chip ram freed up when I upgraded to 2.04; I just didn't pay too much attention to it because, under 1.3, the chip/total ram wasn't split out. Thanks, C=… OTOH, this abundance of chip ram will make more than one developer think, "Gee,…
As a user of an Amiga 1000 running WB 2.04 (thanks, DKB), can I add something? (WARNING: Soapbox Alert!) TO ALL DEVELOPERS: PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! Please try to write your programs so as to use as little chip memory as possible. There is still a sizable number of Amiga 1000…
> It's harder to learn Lotus macros… And it's MUCH more difficult to understand Lotus macros. Over the flight pattern… – via Whap!
> However, if you switched to Desqview on that Intel Box… I can't, because Desqview won't work on my LAN. In fact, that's the problem with MS-DULL; it takes a cold fusion physicist to figure out how to get all the kludges to work properly just to get a system…
MAS-90 Series II is a fine accounting package available for DOS and UNIX machines. Modules include General Ledger, A/P, A/R, Payroll and Time and Billing. The networked DOS version of the program is my in-house general ledger, and I'm quite happy with it. The modules are expensive; I believe they…
>I use Windows every day. I'd rather use KickStart 1.1. If it wasn't for Solitaire, there would be no reason for Windows to continue to exist. Sign this reply from… Another happy Windows and DOS 5 user (sarcastic) who found out he can't use EMM386 and Windows standard mode together……
> NothStar that was built from a kit…an an Imsai… Well, if C= can somehow extract its head out of… errr… the sand…, maybe it won't go the way of NorthStar or Imsai. Over the flight pattern… – via Whap!
SA> Compared to MaxiPlan, you'd call MaxiPlan an entry level product. Oooooooh… If the programmers need another beta tester, I'll volunteer in a New York minute. Over the flight pattern… – via Whap!
Vic, could you at least tell us whether the product you are beta testing is a high end product (like the late Maxiplan Plus 3.6) or an entry level product (such as HaiCalc)? Or have you said too much already? Over the flight pattern… – via Whap!
Big Blue Apples
Message #28958
I'm familiar with the concept of "pure" programs, but I could nevr have expalained it as elequently as you have. I guess pure programs could be used in networking environments but I may be oversimplifying the situation. In any case, Amiga applications such as databases, accounting programs, word processors, graphics…
Broadview Junior High? I attended 9th grade there! That was let's see… uhhhh,,, 1972-3… when dinosaurs walked the earth… 😉 Over the flight pattern… – via Whap!
I'm a bit out of my league here, so if anyone else can explain it better, please do. First off, maybe I should have said 'record locking' instead of file sharing. What you DON'T want to have happen is to have two workstations working on the same set of data…
I have a copy of CanDo version 1 updated to the latest and greatest, and I also have IntroPak. The reason I mentioned it in that context is because I have at least 4 manuals for the whole thing. I'd be interested in AmigaVision and ProDraw definitely (could you throw…
> Do you really think that CM is "in their hair"? Yes, I honestly do. Back in 1985, Commodore and Apple were both sucking wind. Apple wound up "hitting a home run with desktop publishing", and not only saved themselves, but went on to prosper (the quotes were from a…
Thanks for the reply; I didn't understand too much of it, but thanks anyway… 🙂 Seriously, Commodore needs to be able to "plug into" a Novell network, because that is (what I've been told) the larger companies use for PC networks, and it would be nice if Amiga could somehow…
I'm happy you're happy with that; I guess I could plug into the LANtastic network I have at work the same way. But I don't think that file and program sharing would work too well (or at least as well as it should) on the Amiga side… Over the flight…
Square pixel technology is an advantage because some brain-dead software (must have been IBM stuff I tried 🙂 don't compensate for scaling, mostly in DTP and bitmap graphics programs. As for a 386 in a 200/2500/3000, it may be possible, but it involves mating a BB with a 386 add-on…
Who could Commodore join forces with in order to combat inovations that might be forthcoming from the Apple/IBM alliance? It is foolish for me to name names (that's a bit like fantasy baseball trades, IMHO), but there are plenty of companies who will be negatively impacted by the alliance; everyone…
And in Connecticut, they're hardly being purchased at all… Over the flight pattern… – via Whap!
Gee, Ben, how in heck do I argue with logic? 🙂 If you read the IBM mags(or AmigaWorld and Amazing Computing for that matter), you'd think the Amiga could do nothing else but multimedia. But you may be right in your assessment that not many people buy the Amiga for…
I agree with much of what you said, but… Certainly, Apple and IBM are out to carve up the market amongst themselves and those who they deem fit to license their technology. While I understand your considerable UNIX experience, we are talking about two different markets. UNIX in its present…
I'll agree with you that Windows is about as useful as tail fins on a computer. I long ago trashed that worthless piece of trash in my office. Since Microsoft is the author of Windows, I doubt that any goodwill will accrue to them. It will take some time before…
I don't buy your reasoning. At the present, the Amiga is very weak in networking, an area that keeps Amigas out of corporate America. The age of "sneaker net" is over; system intergrators and corporate PC co-ordinators want to know how any new technology will "plug in" to their existing…
It's going to be awhile before Apple and IBM produce anything substantial, I grant everyone that, and also that the initial efforts of their joint offering will be high end. But both Apple and IBM have made overtures to the home market (Apple with its Mac Classic and talk of…
RE your comment: Then CBM should sue to prevent the merger… Good idea! Is a company that is organized to merge a standard and drive smaller companies out of businness a violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act? Good grief… Actually the Sherman Anti-Trust Act is to protect businesses who charge…
Try not mounting di0: (or any di: devices). Then edit your mountlist or mountlist.msdosFS to add IBMA: and IBMB: (Just use a text editor's copy function to copy di0: info and change di0: to IBMA:). Then just run the batch file included. It should work, but it is SLOW… Over…
But the Amiga market will have to eventually intersect Apple and IBM's market if Commodore is ever to increase Amiga sales in the US. Certainly you would not argue that Amiga sales (not upgrade sales) has not been good. In Connecticut, Amiga is a non-issue, as there are only three…
So if I buy your vision of the Apple/IBM alliance, I should take a large home equity loan on my home and buy Commodore stock, right? :=) Apple and IBM have a number of reason to ally themselves. Apple gets instant respect in "IBM shops" and IBM RISC technology, IBM…
I don't think Apple or IBM would ask their users to dump their platforms. I think that Apple and IBM will get together to push a UNIX (multitasking, multiuser) like OS with a Macintosh front end that would be easy to use that would run on both IBM and Apple…
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