kim@amdahl.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) (05/23/87)
[ "Send lawyers, guns, and money ..." ] On our internal Amiga conference, Pete Jordan writes: > Keep your Amiga 1000s > > I called Abel Supply yesterday and was told some ugly news: > The new retail price of the A2000 according to Commodore is now > $1950. He wasn't sure what the discount would be at Abel. > > Abel also said that the Amiga 500 will be out by the end of June. The > Amiga 2000 will not be available until August or so. > > The High Persistence Amiga monitor also won't be ready til August or so. > If you buy an Amiga 500 or 1000 in the meantime, you'll have to find an > alternative monitor. Any suggestions? I'm favoring the Electrohome > H.P. Multisync Monitor but it's kind of expensive --- $950. > Right now I'm really favoring a high persistence screen of some kind. > > The Electrohome has good growing power: > high persistence > unnoticeable smearing unless you're looking for it in fast animation > 13" anti-glare CRT > .31 MM dot pitch > auto horizontal scan rate of 15 - 34 KHz > 720 x 540 max resolution > 30 MHz bandwidth > RGB/RS170 and IBMTTL inputs (analog & digital RGB) > line operated, automatic degaussing > vertical and horizontal resizing > reduced underscan ability (about a 9" screen during underscan) > can manually control individual red, blue, and green guns Perhaps somebody at CBM Sales would care to comment on this UGLY price? [ Could this be a bundled price, including a monitor and/or a 2nd floppy? OK, so I'm hopelessly naive ... ] Also, anyone using an Electrohome? How do you like it? Is the animation smearing at an acceptable level? Greens should smear the most, since that is the eye's highest persistence color ... how badly? /kim -- UUCP: kim@amdahl.amdahl.com or: {sun,decwrl,hplabs,pyramid,ihnp4,seismo,oliveb,cbosgd}!amdahl!kim DDD: 408-746-8462 USPS: Amdahl Corp. M/S 249, 1250 E. Arques Av, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 CIS: 76535,25