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From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amigas -- why the 90 day warranty?
Message-ID: <1708@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 28 Oct 89 12:55:59 GMT
References: <23416@cup.portal.com> <61.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us>
Reply-To: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
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In article <61.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us> filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us (Bela Lubkin) writes:
| I would GUESS that the cost for a 1-year extended
| warranty for an A500 or A2000 would be about $80; about $20 for an
| external drive, also about $20 for a CBM-supplied hard disk; near zero for
| memory expansions.

I hope the price would be much lower.  If you figure the price of a
plain-jane 2000 is $2000 (high), then that warranty says one out of
25 machines will be a total dud requiring replacement.

-- 
Jim Wright
jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu