🚀 go-pugleaf

One of the things I've been waiting for, before making a decision
about buying an Archimedes was the announcement of the SCSI adapter,
which has been slated as `coming' for some time.
It now appears to be available, along with the Ethernet adapter, which
was also of some interest.  This really does seem to have made up my
mind for me!! Is it just me, or do other people find 299+VAT a totally
unreasonable price for this? I had expected Acorn to follow their
tradition, and be expensive, but this is 6 times the price I've seen for
some IBM PC adapters!!! 449+VAT seems similarly expensive for Ethernet.

If the reason is that these adaptors are more sophisticated, to achieve
greater throughput, then I would suggest that this will not matter to
many people, for whom it is a question of cheap-and-cheerful, or nothing!
If the argument is then that cheep-and-cheerful implies not using SCSI,
I would suggest that anyone who wishes to buy a disk, that can be regarded
as an investment, rather than writing it off immediately, can only consider
a SCSI disk.
SCSI also makes tape streamers, and other more interesting devices available.

I'm afraid this has probably lost Acorn at least one sale (me!), and
the Ethernet price will probably make some universities think twice.

Come on Acorn!!! Please don't bury a nice machine!

What do others think?

Yours, rather disappointed,
Martin
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	Martin C. Atkins
	Dept. of Computer Science
	University of York
	Heslington
	York YO1 5DD
	ENGLAND