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Re: Buying a multimedia system

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From: Robert Kesterson
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1992 05:27
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In article <1992Sep4.234254.11508@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca> cs902125@ariel.yorku.ca (SHUK C YIP) writes:
> In article <1992Sep4.182640.16397@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> dudley@cebaf4.cebaf.gov (John Dudley) writes:
> >
> >   1. I see your concern with the smaller Amiga base of users(compared
> >to the Mac).  Currently, there are approximately 9 million Macintosh
> >users versus 3.5 million Amiga Users.  However, it is a fact that over
> >50% of desktop video platforms today are Amiga based.  You may have
> >heard of a device called the Video Toaster. It is available to Mac and
> >IBM users, but is Amiga based.  If you were to purchase one for a Mac or
> >IBM, all you are actually purchasing is an Amiga 2000 with the Video
> >Toaster installed in it, and you are connecting the Amiga to the Mac/IBM
> >through the parallel port for user control.  The Video Toaster, however,
> >was developed for the Amiga computer.
> >
>
> Except Video Toaster, is there any other good video or graphics hardware
> for Amiga? I ask that because people keep repeating again and again. Is
> this the only one for Amiga?

It would be hard to name a piece of hardware for the Amiga that *isn't*
video of graphics related.  And yes, many are very good.  (Such things
as the Impact Vision/24, DCTV, HAM-E, etc. all come to mind, and there
are many others.)

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