Re: Complete Basic?

["Payton Byrd" <payton@paytonnospambyrd.com>]

"Jeff Blakeney" <jeff.blakeney@a2central.com.remove-pt5-this> wrote in message news:2o9w5i4aqeb$.qrls61d0e83v$.dlg@40tude.net...
>  To: Michael Kent
> On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:54:56 +0000, Michael Kent wrote:
> 
>> Without the GS I would most likely have bought an Amiga until the color
>> Macintoshes came down to PC-level prices.  The black-and-white boxes
>> just didn't do it for me.  The Amiga was the only other computer that
>> had the same coolness factor as the IIgs.  The main difference being
>> that the Apple IIgs can trace its lineage back to Wozniak's garage.  :-)
> 
> Now that you mention it, I probably would have jumped to the Amiga or
> the Atari ST instead of the PC.  I remember in the early 90s when I
> almost bought an Atari Falcon even though I was still quite happy with
> my IIgs.  It just had some cool features I was interested in using.
> 
> But I stayed with my IIgs.  I'm not so sure I'd still be wanting to use
> an Amiga or Atari ST today like I do my IIgs because of their limited
> expandability compared to the IIgs.

The desktop Amiga's are about as expandable as you can get, and even the A500/A600/A1200 are pretty well supported by third party as well; but the A2000/A3000/A4000 offer tons of expandability options; on the A4000 the stock CPU even resides on a separate CPU card and upgrading the CPU is as simple as removing one card and putting in another.