Re: Applied Engineering (was: Re: Beagle Brothers

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sheldon@atlcom.net (Sheldon Simms) wrote:
>I don't know, but they didn't choose their market well. They decided to
>enter the Mac marketplace as an manufacturer of accelerators. This was
>probably the most brutally competitive segment of the mac-peripheral
>market at that time with slow Macs driving people to accelerators and
>many long standing and experienced companies already in the market.

Well, you have to understand that their "innovative but expensive"
scheme worked well for Apple II, IIGS, and Amiga products because these
three computers (IIGS considered different because of products like
16-bit Vulcan IDE controller and TWGS) are not mainstream and thus
people were willing to pay extra.

By the time they turned to the Mac, the Mac was already becoming as
mainstream as the PC.

-Scott G.