Bell & Howell Apple II update

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Fri Jan 25 10:23:44 2002

That's how the MAC came to be a competitor of the PC instead of the
Commodores. You pick your market with your pricetag. There were published
rumors of the original proposed cost of the MAC, in 1985, suggesting it would
be <$1000. However, Apple decided that, though they would have made typical
profits on the sub-$1K price by going after the big-blue market, they not only
added a clear $3k to their profits, but were playing in the major league.

The Amiga didn't need to be gold-plated, it just needed a price appropriate
for its intended market.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Pope" <bpope_at_wordstock.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: Bell & Howell Apple II update


> 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 - 10:23:44 GMT