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From: dtiberio@csserv2.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
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Subject: Re: A3000UX at UniForum?
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Date: 6 Feb 91 20:40:18 GMT
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In article <1991Feb6.005537.7551@Neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (The Ghost Who Walks) writes:
>es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>
>>In article <1991Feb5.220132.21422@Neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (The Ghost Who Walks) writes:
>>>  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"?
>
>>	Yeah, so why are you laughing? The LIST price is way up
>>there. The EDUCATIONAL price, which will be near the street
>>price, is slightly under $4,000 for the A3000UX-B to institutions.
>
>  And quite a bit more to individuals I believe...  
>  Does this include a 1100 x 800 17" grayscale monitor?
>  Does it include the tape drive which you'll need if you ever want to
>update your software??  (Why on earth Commodore doesn't go CD-ROM is
>beyond me.  Are there ANY CD-ROM drives for the Amiga?)
>  
  Your lucky if you got a grayscale monitor! I here its better than 24 bit
NTSC video boards! :)

  Tape drives are NOT necessary to update software. Obviously, all you have
to do is copy all of your applications to disk (of course people will also
have original copies of their commercial software). Backups only require
files that actually CHANGE over its lifetime. My DeluxePaint III is the
same as the day I got it, so backing it up once a week does me no good. Then
again, their are tape drives and VCR drivers available for the amiga.

  Yes, of course there are CD ROMS for the Amiga, as well as optical drives.
I can name CDTV (CD ROM), and the Xetec CD ROM. I think $600 is a good price
for the Xetec CD ROM drive, but then again, I only use 10 megs of software
anyway...


>-- 
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Evan Torrie.  Stanford University, Class of 199?       torrie@cs.stanford.edu   
>"I didn't get where I am today without knowing a good deal when I see one,
> Reggie."  "Yes, C.J."

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