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Re: Amiga has the X factor?
« on: February 07, 2008, 10:06:24 PM »
A well equipped Model T will cost you as much or more than a new Falcon.  The Model T has no air conditioning, cruise control, 4 speed automatic transmission, etc. etc.  Yet there are lots of people who would gladly pay almost anything for a Model T.  Who can explain?  Who cares?  The same with Amiga folks.  You like it or you don't and no amount of rational will explain this.

You gotta have a hobby, what's wrong with Amigas?  They don't hurt people, in fact they are so far from green that you'd really do a lot of harm landfilling them.  

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Re: Amiga has the X factor?
« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2008, 06:12:54 PM »
Also you have to realise that the the computer owning public has changed.  The people who in my quaint 20th century terminology, had flashing 12:00 on their VCRs (I can hear my kid now: daddy, what's a vcr?).  These folks, the flashing twelvers, own computers now.  They can barely use a Mac or PC, they would be totally lost on an Amiga.

It isn't that you are dealing with less creative people, it's that computers are like automobiles or refrigerators, everyone has them.  Amiga users were a preselected crowd in a pre-selected number of computer owners.  The same percentage of human beings are creative, the distinction is no long what computer they own or if they own a computer but what they use their computer for.
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Re: Amiga has the X factor?
« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2008, 08:29:27 PM »
Yeah, the 2000s the only computer I know of that would make a decent payload for a Trebuchet.

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