@RedRumLoa
Actually it is a myth that Amiga was ever a low cost computer
I TOTALLY beg to differ on that...
The A1000 was priced competitively against other high end computers of the day (around $1500). But look how much better it was than ANYTHING ELSE in the home market at the time. It could be easily argued that this was a bargain price.
The A500 was priced downright cheap. The only thing near it's price range were the old 8-bitters. And, yes, expansions did seem expensive, but really weren't much more than for other systems. $600 for a hard drive seems a lot when it attaches to a $600 computer. Somehow that same $600 hard drive doesn't seem as outrageous when it attaches to a $1500 computer. And, really, did the Amiga 500 NEED a hard drive? Mine never did.
The A2000 was priced in the mid range of PC clones. And, again, WAY more advanced. Heck, for the price of an upper-end PC clone, you could get an A2000 with a PC emulator, and have both. That was a GREAT deal.
The A3000 started creeping up in price. Commodore was trying to define it as a high-end workstation. It was, but by name, it was associated with games market the Amiga 500 was still dominating.
The A1200 and A4000 were released late, and Commodore's goose was already cooked by this time. They weren't bargains at all, but simply sold to the people that already loved Amigas.
By 1992 or so, I'd agree that the price advantage compared to the market was a myth, but I never would have started with the Amiga at all had the A500 not been so much cheaper than any other modern computer of 1989.
