CompuServe Messages

Commodore actually had a decent A2000HD/P bundle several years ago, the "P" standing for "professional." The hard drive came loaded with CrossDOS (this before it was built into AmigaDOS) and a nice batch of Gold Disk software, including a spreadsheet, text editor, Pagesetter II, MediaShow (a cheap version of ShowMaker), a database program and other goodies. It retailed for around $1500 (before the AGA machines and while the A3000 was still fairly new) and was a decent value. I know; I bought one! Obviously, however, this concept didn't take off. While it's conventional wisdom that the Amiga failed to sell better for lack of "business" software, in truth most buyers weren't interested in businessware, or at least were willing to accept non-standard businessware. They wanted primarily to do video, multimedia, graphics, music, games, etc.