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Interesting!! As to the negative comments I've heard, some have been from salesmen who call the machine a toy and have said there is no serious software for the machine. They have been very critical of the bridgeboard that can be used in Amiga's to run MS-DOS. They say that it is very, VERY slow. When I have asked about the Amiga, some of those salesman have made comments to me like "So, you are interested in a toy?" I have gone to several large computer stores in the NYC area (Like J & R Computer World) and have only seen game software. No business programs at all. I have also heard from someone I know who purchased an Amiga that they could not find any user groups that devoted their activities to serious programming and machine operation. The groups were primarily concerned with games! I also have Que's computer dictionary that described the Amiga as "the computer of choice for playing computer games and composing music. The machine has found little acceptance as a business computer, however, because of the lack of business software for the machine." I am a college student and I worked at Citibank over the summer. I asked the head of the department why there were no Amiga's and he said that the Amiga was not a sophiscated enough machine to meet the department's needs. He called it (that awful word) a home computer. In my own humble opinion, I think every computer should offer all kinds of programs and those programs should be top notch. I have another friend who owns an Amiga 500 that wants to get rid of it and buy an IBM clone. Why? Because he can not find a variety of software for his equipment, and he is frustrated because of that. Also, in my experience, I have noticed that many online services do not address the needs of Amiga users in the way they do IBM or Mac. Am I correct in assuming that there is no CIM version for the Amiga? These things disturb me. The machine may be exceptional, but the world does not even notice it. There are not even that many publications devoted to the Amiga.