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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The Mail Order Amiga
Summary: Disk drives on 2500
Message-ID: <794@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 89 11:49:51 GMT
References: <767@corpane.UUCP> <19326@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc.
Lines: 44

In article <19326@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
>John Sparks writes:
>
>" Well, let's get on with it! First, The Amiga 2500 is an Amiga 2000 with the
>" following options:  A2620  - 68020 card with 2 meg of 32bit memory
>"                     A2090A - SCSI hard disk controller
>"                     40 Megabyte Ronin hard disk drive                ^^^^^
>
>While I'm sure the fine folks at Ronin R&D (in Alameda, CA) would be pleased
>to learn their name is associated with a crucial part of the Amiga A2500, the
>drive is actually manufactured by RODIME (of Scotland).   :-)


BIG OOOOOOPS! on the phone I could have swore the salesman told me RONIN. Oh
Oh. Shit....    [red faced with embarrasment] Thanks for the correction. please
don't invalidate the article because of this misunderstanding.

>
>John's article is overall quite good, but one issue I didn't see covered is
>that of sales tax; there's a move afoot by states such as California and
others
>to badger companies to collect sales tax even when the company(ies) don't have
>business offices in the state.  Such sales tax collection "persuasion" could
be
>the death of mail order when the tax collection erodes some of the advantages
>of mail order.  :-(

Damn straight it would. already shipping costs make up for any money saved on
Taxes, that's why I didn't bother mentioning any advantage to not paying sales
tax. I wasn't aware of this move to start charging sales tax. This would put a
large damper on mail order.

>
>Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]


Now I have to track down all copies of my article and change RONIN to RODIME.
:-)


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