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From: david_r_watters@penguin.cis.ohio-state.edu
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Subject: Amiga 3000 and CBM
Keywords: Big A2500/30 sale.
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Date: 13 Apr 90 06:05:54 GMT
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From tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!sdcsvax!beowulf!velasco Fri Apr 13 01:26:45 EDT 1990

/	From a good source...
/
/	- 68030/881 @ 16 MHz or 68030/822 @ 25 Mhz
/	- Amiga Enhanced Chip Set
/	- 1 Meg Chip RAM expandable to 2 Meg on board
/	- 1 Meg Fast RAM expandable to 4 Meg on board
/	- Built in Display Enhancer
/	- Internal SCSI Hard Drive (50 Mbyte planned)
/	- Internal Real Time Clock w/RAM
/	- 4 new Zorro III expansion slots;

   (  Lots of badly need enhancements deleted....)
     

/Will cost less than a comparably equipped A2500 because of the use of the
           ^^^^
/three custom Amiga chips and five custom gate arrays.

I am having a very SERIOUS time follwing CBM's reasoning lately.   I realize
the above is not gospel, but lately I have been hearing very similar specs and
stories from some VERY inside friends.

My problem is this;  Why did CBM spend a lot of time and money getting 1000
owners to turn in their machine for a 2000 series, and even more time and money
getting us Educators/Students/Schools to go out and buy lots of 2000's, both 
before quickly aproaching deadlines, and then turn around and make the 2000
line obsolete.

Don't get me wrong, I want the 3000 to be a complete overhaul as much as
anyone, but why on Earth didn't they wait and do the 1000 and Education deals
AFTER the 3000 was released.  

What about all the new A2500/30 owners?   Are you telling me that MY _3_ day
old 2500/30 $3000++ machine is going to be obsolete in a matter of days or
weeks to something that is VERY CLOSE in price to what I just got.

CBM only gave A1000 owners till the end of April, and Educational people only
had till the end of March for non-package perchaces.  No word on what the
A3000 was going to be like was let out, so how could somone who needed the
Ed. deal, but would rather have the HUGE advances of the 3000 if it was
fiscally feesable know what to do and wether or not to wait.  And then CBM 
makes you sign your life away, saying you can not sell the 2500/30 
for _1 year_!!!

CBM has got to tell it's family, us users and supporters, what they are going
to do soon, or their is going to be a lot of people saying "**** it, I am tired
of fighting for a company that keep scr=wing me over!"

I have no problem with a brand new machine, no problem with their secrets,
however if they introduced these big deals to their original supporters (The
people who saved CBM) and to Educators just to clear stock, I for one am
gone!

Ps.  Unless the A3000 is a warranty upgrade! :-)

watters@cis.ohio-state.edu