mwm@raven.relay.pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) (11/04/90)
This has been on my mind for a while. During random shopping trips to the wholesale-to-the-people places, I run accross lots of software for the Mac or PC clones. Ditto for 3rd-party hardware to hang off the machines. Ditto for books on the things. Ditto even for IBM clones. This depresses me. Here's a great source of a nice variety of things at better-than-mail-order prices. But, because I chose the machine I did, I can't use any of it without spending enough to make up for the cost. And even then, wouldn't be getting the full advantage of the machine. To add to it, there's Frys. The nerds supermarket. They dropped the Amiga completely. No great loss; last time I looked, the had the '020 version of the 2500 for $4000, even though you could wonder down the street and buy the '030 version for $3500 or so. There software selection wsa similarly up-to-date. But it's still a setback. Finally, you might check out Jerry Pournelle's comments on the Amiga in the latest microtimes. He says good things about it, then turns around and claims that you have to want to know the insides of the machine. I'm still trying to decide if I'm pissed about that, as well as pretty much everything else he's ever done. <mike --