Date   : Wed, 02 Aug 2006 12:18:43 +0100
From   : Richard Kilpatrick <oldcomputers@...>
Subject: Re: Hybrid Music - determined attempt!

On 2 Aug 2006, at 12:03, W.Scholten wrote:

> Richard Kilpatrick wrote:
>
>> 32-bit Archimedes, the BBC B was gone, and the Master was always   
>> painfully overpriced for the home user (of course, by the time the  

>> ST/ Amiga arrived, it was overpriced and technically obsolete,  
>> almost  irrelevant to the home computing market - great as it was,  

>> if I'm  remembering rightly in 1990 they were still listed at over  

>> £600).
>
> The ST arrived before the BBC master, so the BBC master was from the
> start obsolete and overpriced.

It's a phrasing thing. I had an ST about the time they came out, so  
I'm aware of the dates ;)

I still can't believe that Acorn managed to launch the Master and  
A305 so close together with such drastically different technologies.

Richard

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