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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Obese Agnus in 1000
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Message-ID: <928@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 3 Aug 89 13:43:09 GMT
References: <1765@ucqais.uc.edu>
Reply-To: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc.
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In article <1765@ucqais.uc.edu> ggibeau@ucqais.uc.edu (George Gibeau) writes:
>
>Talked to Greg Tibbs yesterday and he said the Obese Agnus for the
>A1000 should be ready in about 60-90 days.  He is going with
>a commercial product, and the price should be around $600 for
>a fully populated board (Agnus, 1 meg memory, clock, etc..).

Two questions: 

1> why so much? because of the memory?, for that much I could sell my 1000
for about $300, take that $600 for the board, add $200 more and buy an Amiga
2000.
Hmm. lets see.... $150 for 1 meg of memory, $100 for the Agnus, $50 for support
parts (caps, connectors, resistors, etc) . $25 for the PC board. $325 at cost.
Maybe he should be selling for around $450, instead of $600. Us Amiga 1000
owners are reluctant to shell out too much cash for a machine that we will
probably end up replacing in a year or two anyway.

2> What about the other half of the ECS? Will the A1000 be able to support
that, how about with this board installed?


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