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From: richc@vaxwaller.UUCP (Rich Commins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IBM vs AMIGA cost
Summary: Price Comparisons
Message-ID: <4264@vaxwaller.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 90 21:16:10 GMT
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In article <1590@corpane.UUCP>, sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:
> 
> WHAT? $2500 for an amiga 1000? Boy do I have some land in Florida I want
> to sell you!
  I bought my AMIGA 1000 the first year it came out.  People before me paid
  near $4500.00 for their systems.  Prices were very high back then.  How many
  years ago was it anyway?
> 
> So your price should have been $3495. But you have to realize that back
> then the 386 did not exist. The comparable system would have been a
> 80286. The Amiga 1000 was new technology back then. And the 80286 would
  I agree.  The two systems aren't comparible and its unfair to compare
  a 4 to ? year old system to a new system.
> 
> So compare that to the IBM system. And remember, it's not IBM, it's just a 
> clone. You go out and buy IBM and it's gonna run you around $10,000 for the
> same system.
  Another good point.  An IBM or Compaq system is much higher in price and
  makes the AMIGA system look inexpensive.

  My original point in this discussion was not in comparing a four year old
  computer to a new one.  Nor was it to complain about how much money the
  AMIGA 1000 cost when I bought it years ago.  It was to complain about the
  lack of display resolution that ALL AMIGA's have today!  Why did CBM let
  the technologically advanced (for its day) AMIGA 1000 fall behind in its
  display.  In my opinion it started when CBM broke up the origial
  (and brilliant) design team that included Dave Hayne and RJ Michel.

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