NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/comp/sys/amiga/misc/19233

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From: [e-mail] (Ed Brown)
Subject: Re: Reasons for Amiga CD-ROM
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Date: 30 Dec 92  5:14:42 GMT
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> But as for CD-ROM being THE future, that's bologna. Sheer marketing hype.
> CD-ROM is nothing more than a short-term solution to a long-term problem.
> CD-ROM is expensive, both in terms of development (ie: burners) and also
to
> the consumer (ie: $400-500 just to hear a game talk to them). It is not
the
> answer to all of our problems. It is a current solution to those who are
> willing to pay for it, but take over the world it will not.


Why does this remind me of the comments made by a past president of I.B.M.?
Something to the effect that "...this company will concentrate on
typewriters and adding machines, since the entire world's need for
computers is about 5 machines..."... or words *very* close to that.
Pioneering vision, in either case.  MHO, of course.  ;-)


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