kim@amdahl.UUCP (09/20/87)
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The following was posted on our internal Amiga conference by Andy Lee.
It is somewhat commercial in nature, so if such things annoy you, read
no further. I'm posting it because it mentions several products that
I've not heard about.
/kim
Pond slime food: This posting does not constitute an endorsement of any of
the products or companies mentioned below by myself, or my
employer. Many of the product and company names mentioned
below are probably Trademarks or Registered Trademarks which
are owned by their respective companies.
> This is as seen in ComputerWorld September 7, 1987
>
> "Commodore Business Machines, Inc. last week confirmed that it will
> announce a multistation desktop presentation an publication system and
> an adapter board to allow its Amiga 2000 to read DOS files.
>
> Commodore said the publishing system, due to be announced at the
> Seybold Desktop Publishing Conference in Santa Clara this week is based
> on the recently shipped Amiga 2000 and comes standard with a dual
> floppy drive CPU, 2M of ram and the Commodore A2002 color monitor.
>
> The system retails for less than $3,500, the company said. That price
> includes the A2300 Genlock, a hardware peripheral that allows users
> to connect video cameras to the Amiga.
>
> The A2088d Bridgeboard for IBM Personal Computer XT compatability
> also scheduled to be announced at the show is available for $699.
>
> Additionally, Commodore said 12 of its developers will announce or
> display products for the system at the show. Among the products is
> WordPerfect Amiga from WordPerfect Corp. which offers onscreen columns
> a 115,000 word dictionary an online thesaurus, macros, math and support
> for some 200 printers. Its list price is $395.
>
> Page composition products introduced for the system include the $395
> Professional Page from Gold Disk Inc. and the $225 Shakspear package
> from Infinity Software.
>
> Microsearch will introduce an Amiga specfic, windowed page layout
> package called City Desk which will sell for $149.95. Brown Wagh Publishing
> will display its Publisher 1000 newsletter production program which sells
> for $199.95.
>
> Ameristar Technologies Inc said it plans to introduce its Arcnet
> local area network card plus networking software that reportedly
> permits several Amigas to share files and an Adobe Systems Inc
> Postscript-compatable printer. It will sell for $599.
>
> Two products will be announced for users who will need to create
> video presentation. Videotitler from Ageis Development Corp which
> will be sold for $99.95 and Deluxe Productions from Electronic Arts
> which will cost $199 are said to utilize the Amigas 4,096 color
> palette and to offer fades and wipes."
>
>
> Andrew Lee
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