Bell & Howell Apple II update

From: Bryan Pope <bpope_at_wordstock.com>
Date: Fri Jan 25 09:31:49 2002

And thusly Richard Erlacher spake:
>
>
> If BNC's were in wide use in the video industry, I didn't see it because that
> sort of equipment was too costly to show up in the microcomputing environment.
> After all, if one had the budget for expensive video gear, one didn't have to
> use an Apple computer. It didn't make sense to use a computer costing $1500,
> when one could afford a monitor costing $15k. If you had that sort of money,
> you'd get a "real" computer.
>

Yeah, and this exact same mentality helped to kill the Amiga! Yes the Amiga
was used in a lot of TV stations, but they were mostly Ch. 3 cable companies.
Maybe Commodore should have gold-plated the plugs and sold them for 10x the
price.

Cheers,

Bryan
Received on Fri Jan 25 2002 - 09:31:49 GMT