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From: a976@mindlink.UUCP (Ron Tarrant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 1000s for sale... ONLY $100 EACH!!
Message-ID: <1680@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 90 11:26:23 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> rsilvers@hawk.ulowell.edu writes:
> 
> Msg-ID: <809@swan.ulowell.edu>
> Posted: 6 May 90 01:40:19 GMT
> 
> Org.  : University of Lowell, CS Dept
> Person: Robert Silvers
> 
> >>It will run most Amiga programs, *and* the good old stuff that worked
> >>with Kickstart 1.1.  Also, with $130 for an A2000 keyboard and $60 for a
> 
> >       The A2000 uses a round (9pin?) plug-in connector for the keyboard,
> the
> >       A1K uses a phone jack type plug in.  Last I checked they were
> >       totally incompatible.
> 
>         There is an adaptor availiable for $40.00 that makes them work
> together.  Does an a2000 keyboard really cost $130.00?
> 
>                                                 --Rob.


Good Grief (said Charlie Brown) $40.00????? I know I guy here in Vancouver who
makes them and sells them for $10.00(Can) which works out to about $8.50 or so
in US bucks. Considering that the parts are less than $3.00 and it takes about
4-5 minutes to build one BY HAND, $40.00(US) leaves a lot of room for profit.
Sounds to me like whoever is selling this item down there is just a bit greedy.
-Ron Tarrant