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From: bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Comments about the Classic.
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Date: 24 Oct 90 07:59:09 GMT
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In article <34248@nigel.ee.udel.edu> TAAB5@ccvax.iastate.edu writes:
>
>   I would like to compare the recently-introduced MAC Classic to the
>Amiga model that comes closest to matching it in price, the Amiga 500.

Indeed.  I suppose you would.

>   (4) To compete directly with the Classic, offer an A500 bundle
>that consists of an A500 with 1M of RAM, 20M hard drive, AmigaOS2.0,
>external floppy drive, and a monochrome multisync monitor.

Or, better yet, CBM could purchase all the Classics they could possibly buy
(making a wise purchase, I-MB-SO), tape the A500 motherboard to the chassis,
make all the connections, and sell it for $500 bucks less than the Classic.

Will the net give me permission to compare -MB- to a ruptured appendix?  It'd
be more relevant, and much more entertaining.

>
>                                -MB-

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