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#Mac vs Amiga ?

    18-Dec-90 06:56:45
Sb: #Mac vs Amiga ?
Fm: Harry Baya 76702,513
To: All
My son has an Amiga 1000 which is a bit the worse for wear (hard disk broken for third time, missing a key, etc. ). He has a year and a half of college to go and is getting a degree in Computer Science. He will be taking "C" next term an is very interested in animation and interactive video. He would like to upgrade to an Amiga 3000 (Student price $3100, 25Mhz, 50MB drive, hi-res monitor) – or a slightly cheaper Amiga 2000. However, he is willing to consider a Mac. The problem is he thinks the minimum machine would be a Mac IIcx with an Apple color monitor. I am wondering if a used SE-30 with a color card/monitor would do. I use a Mac at work and just bought a IIci to use at home.. so I am prejudiced. Would anyone care to comment? I brought this up once before – now I need to go through it in the context of actually buying something. I posted a similar message in the Macsys forum. Harry