CompuServe Messages

Yes, our store sells both the ST line and the Amiga line. Since the arrival of the Amiga 500 this summer, Amiga sales have FAR outweighed ST sales. (Not that I think the ST is a bad machine, but I do cringe when I see someone buying one when they could have gotten an Amiga 500…oh, well) There really isn't much in the way of ST hardware add-ons– external disk drives, and the occasional MIDI cable are about the extent of it. It's hard to compare sales in that department, but I'd say the Amiga beats the ST for hardware add-ons just because of the extra variety: DigiView, sound digitizers and extra memory to name a few. What I've always thought was amusing is that dealer cost of, say, a 1040ST is HIGHER than an Amiga 500, and we sell the Amiga 500 for about 3 times the profit margin. If we sold the Amiga systems at the same margin as ST's we'd be selling them for LESS. However, I'm happy to have the extra commission… (nyuk nyuk) In fact, we get the best hardware margins from Amiga equipment. The name of the store, by the way, is Diskcovery, in Falls Church, VA. To distributors, though, we are Metro Software. –Mike