jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) (12/18/89)
The 17-Dec-89 issue of the San Jose Mercury News had a favorable article
describing the Commodore Amiga on the front page of their Computing
Section. It has a picture of Tip O'Neill (holding the drumstick) entering
the room of Stevie and his Amiga. The article is factual, accurate, and
favorable. (Amazing!) A side article is entitled "Amiga reaches for
compatibility" and mentions the Bridgeboard, the AT Bridgeboard, Mac-2-Dos,
A-Max, Ethernet, and AREXX.
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San Jose, CA 95161-9019 | humorous dislaimer: "My Amiga speaks for me."thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) (12/18/89)
Confirming Joe's report of the San Jose Mercury News' article about the Amiga. However, here's a DIRECT and EXACT paragraph from the article; see if you can figure out what "costs more than $2,000 less" means. That's just ONE of many unusual things in the article. Sigh. Well, at least it's a start! :-) " The recently announced Amiga 2500/30 model, sporting a 68030 processor running at 25 megahertz (sic), 2 megabytes of RAM, a math co-processor and a 40-megabyte hard drive, costs more than $2,000 less than its Macintosh IIci counterpart. " Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]
sjm@sun.acs.udel.edu (Steve Morris) (12/19/89)
In article <25164@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
-
-However, here's a DIRECT and EXACT paragraph from the article; see if you can
-figure out what "costs more than $2,000 less" means.
-...
- math co-processor and a 40-megabyte hard drive, costs more than
- $2,000 less than its Macintosh IIci counterpart.
Translation:
(Cost of MacIIci) - (Cost of described Amiga configuration) > $2,000
OR
You can save over $2,000 if you by the Amiga.
OH! _you_ already knew that. You were just testing _us_. :-)
-Stevenmurphy@pur-phy (William J. Murphy) (12/19/89)
In article <25164@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes: >Confirming Joe's report of the San Jose Mercury News' article about the >Amiga. > >However, here's a DIRECT and EXACT paragraph from the article; see if you can >figure out what "costs more than $2,000 less" means. That's just ONE of many >unusual things in the article. Sigh. Well, at least it's a start! :-) Inserting a comma at the appropriate place makes the statement clear. " The recently announced Amiga 2500/30 model, sporting a 68030 processor running at 25 megahertz (sic), 2 megabytes of RAM, a math co-processor and a 40-megabyte hard drive, costs more than $2,000, less than its Macintosh IIci counterpart. " ^ -- Bill Murphy murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu