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From: fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Original Amiga 1000 prices
Message-ID: <273@estinc.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 90 02:10:38 GMT
References: <5527@ur-cc.UUCP> <4251@vaxwaller.UUCP> <4422@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <1590@corpane.UUCP> <4264@vaxwaller.UUCP> <1607@corpane.UUCP> <1990Mar20.233946.25114@caen.engin.umich.edu>
Reply-To: fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Organization: Enhanced Software Technologies, Tempe, AZ
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In article <1990Mar20.233946.25114@caen.engin.umich.edu> chrisl@caen.engin.umich.edu (Chris Lang) writes:
>In article <1607@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:
>>1985. and they were not that expensive even then. I know, I bought mine then.
>>The monitor was about $500, the A1000 was about $1300. You said $2500 for 
>>just the Amiga 1000. I say you got ripped off or are remembering wrong.
>
>I think the 1000 was more than $1300, wasn't it?  Much closer to $2000, if
>I remember correctly.  Certainly not more than $2000, though.  (I bought mine
>Nov. 10, 1985, and the price DID come down quite a bit shortly thereafter; I
>distinctly remember the feeling of being screwed.)

Sheesh!  Doesn't anyone save their receipts for at least 5 years?  :-)

Anyway, dug mine out and here is how it reads:

	11/14/85	MicroAge, Concord, CA

	AMG1000		PC 192K/ONE DR/KBRD/ONE DR	1295
	AMG1050		256K RAM CARTRIDGE EXPANSION	 195
	AMG1080		MONITOR RGB			 495
	AMG1010		EXT 3.5 DRIVE 880KB		 295
	FUJI x2		FUJI DSDD 3.5" DISKETTES	 110

			SUBTOTAL			2390
			SALES TAX			 155

			TOTAL				2545


P.S., yes, that's right, $110 for 20 blank 3.5" diskettes.  Them were
expensive beggars back then...

-Fred
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