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From: greg@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Some questions
Keywords: OS 2.0, Fatter Agnus, GVP
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Date: 31 Jul 90 05:32:31 GMT
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In article <5962@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett@jhunix.UUCP (Dan Barrett) writes:
>	YES, there is going to be an A500 upgrade to 2.0.  NO, the release
>date has not been announced yet by the Marketing people.  This has been
>posted several times by CBM people.

The specific info I have recieved on an A500 upgrade has _not_ confirmed that
there WILL be one.  Even the press releases said it was indefinite.

I'm amazed that you have information that the people at CBM don't.  How _do_
you perform such miracles??

>	NOW COMES THE FLAME.

Now comes the response. :-)

>	Greg, if all you have is "hearsay", then why the hell are you
>posting it to the entire world?!?!?!?!?  If all you wanted was
>"confirmation", you should have sent MAIL to someone from CBM.  They are
>posting all the time, and their e-mail addresses are in their postings.

So far, the _only_ CBM rep. to respond said he _thought_ there would be an
upgrade.  My concern was that no one would _confirm_ this.  This "hearsay"
_does_ come from a registered Amiga Developer, who happens to work at a
registered (and pretty reliable) Amiga dealer.  

However, he could be conjuring up his facts from the same place you've 
gotten yours. :-)

>	Now, thanks to your posting, thousands of people on the Net are
>going to wonder about the A500 upgrade, rumors are going to start flying,
>and generally bad press about Awful Commodore Who Doesn't Care About Its
>Customers is going to start up again.

First of all, thousands of people _also_ read responses containing 
confirmation or denial of these rumors.

Secondly, CBM, who IMHO has made many great decisions lately, made a serious
error in dropping the 1000.  Sure there was an upgrade program, but did _you_
have the money lying around?  My 1000-owning friends didn't.  Now they 
survive on the hope of a $400+ hack to allow their orphaned computer to 
keep up with the rest of the Amiga line.  CBM could have developed a product
like the Rejuvenator, and sold a whole Hell of a lot of them....

>	Please THINK before you post potentially harmful hearsay to
>the Net.

I did.  I _still_ want to pin down the A500 upgrade program.  For now, we
have the word of Dan....   --That certainly sets my mind at ease!

>                                                        Dan
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This is not to _start_ rumors, but _end_ them.

greg...

        _ _  Disclaimer:  "What I _really_ meant was..."
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