[comp.sys.amiga] Who bought amigas when they were 1.5K

brianm@sco.COM (Brian Moffet) (03/31/88)

My two cents on who bought the amiga when the price range was
1.5K.  I did, and I would hardly call my self as having lots of 
money.  Mostly, I was a college student trying to get a machine
which was cheap, colorful, and would do my math graphics that
I loved so much.  I got it.  I also got a machine which taught me
an incredible amount about operating systems.

What I did not get was what I really wanted, a machine which,
as someone else had mentioned, would be completely upgradable.
I don't care at this point, I can program it to do exactly what
I want to do.  

Another comment to rack mounting 3 amigas.  I like this idea,
but someone had mentioned that the individual amigas would only
have to take care of one bit plane.  This is not true.  1 bit plane
would allow only 2 colors, the background and foreground.  If there
were going to be 32 different shades of a single color
(impossible by the way 4 bit color registers), then you would need the
full 5 bit planes.

If anyone gets this rack mount thing to work, let me know.  Also,
anyone know of a video board which will do 1024x1024x8 which will
work on any amiga?


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