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From: root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Systems Staff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 3000 and CBM
Keywords: Big A2500/30 sale.
Message-ID: <7672@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: 13 Apr 90 12:43:58 GMT
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In article <79198@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <watters@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>From tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!sdcsvax!beowulf!velasco Fri Apr 13 01:26:45 EDT 1990
>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.

	Welcome the the Computer Industry ;-)  Seriously is it the
	case that Commodore will only produce software/hardware that
	works with the A3000?  Will EA start writing games only for the
	A3000?  Will all the developers abandon their A2000 products and
	jump at once to the A3000?  No.  Of course not.  And your machine
	isn't obsolete, either.  At Stony Brook we have about $1M worth
	of Sun-3's that are "obsolete" but people still seem to be
	able to graduate students in spite of this.  Unless and until
	you identify an application that you need that runs only on
	an A3000, you don't have a problem.

>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!"

	Adam Osborne (sp?) might have something to say about announcing
	a machine before you're ready to ship.

>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!

	Stay.  The advent of the A3000, 1.4, etc promises to be some of
	the *most* exciting times for the Amiga.  

>watters@cis.ohio-state.edu

	Doesn't Ohio State have a rather large installation of Sun-3's
	too?  How is it I've not seen a posting from you lamenting
	how you stpent all those dollars on Sun-3's and now they're
	obsolete ;-) ;-)

					Rick Spanbauer
					State U of NY/Stony Brook