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From: teece@uvicctr.UVic.CA.UUCP (teece)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CAN I USE the originial AMIGA for something?
Message-ID: <1157@uvicctr.UVic.CA.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jul 90 19:29:12 GMT
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Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. Canada
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> I have the original Amiga,I believe it's called the 1000 model.
>   I went to my local AMIGA store... 
> ...They told me...
>...that it's useless. 
>    Are they accurate? What would I neeed to do to be able to use it
> to get services such as Compuserve and various BBS.
>    Thanks....



The first thing to do is to dump that AMIGA store you went to and tell all your
friends to do the same. Since you have been out of touch for awhile, let me
tell you that the A1000 is as useful as the day it was released (actually
much more so now) and has a following of dedicated users that prefer it over
the newer models. Commodore just had a very generous buy-back offer to let A1000owners trade up, and many of us chose to keep what we have, thank you!
For the purpose you have described, all you need is the stock A1000 and one of 
many good public domain terminal emulators that are available through any user
group, bulletin board or GOOD dealer. Of course you need a modem too, but the 
modem and software requirement are the same even if you buy the newest model of
Amiga (the 3000). If you do eventually need more memory it can be easily be
added with an external memory board such as the Starboard II or others (yes,
it might cost a bit more than adding memory to a 2000 or 3000 but not to the 
extent it would pay to trade up for that reason alone.) Your machine is still
very useful and unless your store knows something you haven't mentioned (like 
the motherboard is destroyed or something) they are fools and cheats who just
want your money!