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From: spence@cbmvax.commodore.com (Spencer Shanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Competitiveness.
Message-ID: <15133@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 12 Oct 90 21:37:49 GMT
References: <31531@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <60335@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <462@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> <1421@abekrd.UUCP>
Reply-To: spence@cbmvax.commodore.com (Spencer Shanson)
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In article <1421@abekrd.UUCP> koshy@abekrd.UUCP (Koshy Abraham) writes:
>In <462@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> db@cs.ed.ac.uk (Dave Berry) writes:
>
>>I'm currently looking for a new 16-bit computer  I'm attracted to the
>>Amiga.  I would prefer a 2000 to a 500, because it's easier to expand.
>>But look at the folloowing price comparisons:
>
>>Amiga 500:	470 pounds (with 3rd-party upgrade to 1M).
>>Amiga 2000:	880 pounds.
>
>>400 pounds extra for basically the same computer ???
>
>I was at the Business Computer Show in Earls Court, London. Commodore showed
>an A1500 Amiga for 1000 pounds. It is basically an A2000 with an A1500 label.
>They are calling it the Personal Home Computer (I think). It comes with some
>software as follows :
>		Platinum Works
>		Deluxe Paint (II ?)
>		About three games

Hmm. Are you sure this wasn't the CheckMate System's A1500? That's basically
a A500 in a different case.

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