Re: Applied Engineering (was: Re: Beagle Brothers

["Charles P. Hobbs" <transit@primenet.com>]

pubpc1@library.ucla.edu wrote:
> 
> "Tom Zuchowski" <tjz@mindspring.com> wrote:

> >IMHO AE gouged us for all we were worth on the theory that we had noplace
> >else to go.  It's not our fault if they failed to diversify enough that
> >they didn't need to charge such exhorbitant prices.
> 
> I'm not saying I approve of what they did.  Just that in the II/GS/Amiga
> markets they could get enough people to buy their overpriced products.
> 
They weren't *that* big a player in the Amiga market anyway, I think
all they had was a replacement 3.5" disk drive (which about 10 other
vendors had as well.)