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From: amiga@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Boing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IBM vs AMIGA cost
Message-ID: <6965@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 90 21:29:21 GMT
References: <5527@ur-cc.UUCP> <4251@vaxwaller.UUCP> <4422@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <1590@corpane.UUCP> <4264@vaxwaller.UUCP>
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In article <4264@vaxwaller.UUCP> richc@vaxwaller.UUCP (Rich Commins) writes:
: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?

$4,500 for an A1000?  I only paid ~$1,900 for my A1000 with monitor and
512K RAM back in December of '85.  Still using it, too (although I now
have 2.5M RAM and an external floppy).  Maybe you should look into some
Florida real estate...  8)

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