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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (The Ghost Who Walks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: A3000UX at UniForum?
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.220132.21422@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 5 Feb 91 22:01:32 GMT
References: <4644@mindlink.UUCP> <1991Feb1.160317.27931@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <7709@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Sender: torrie@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
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peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>In article <1991Feb1.160317.27931@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> griffin@eecae.uucp (Danny Griffin) writes:
>> Commodore will offer 2 models of the machine. The 3000UX-B, which retails
>> for $5499, comes with 4 MB of fast RAM and a 100- MB hard drive. THe
>> 3000UX-D, priced at $6999, comes with 8 MB of fast RAM and a 200-MB hard
>> drive.

>OK, everyone who was telling me "sure, it'll be priced to beat the NeXT"...
>how are they gonna sell this sucker at this price point?

  Ha ha ha...  Yeah, just what I was thinking Peter.  If you really
want a laugh, you should have kept archives of all the A3000UX
messages about two to three months ago...  Isn't it strange how all
that pre-release "price" information was SO FAR OFF?  Remember the
Byte article for "approx $4000"?

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