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From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: An open letter to C=
Keywords: Grrr
Message-ID: <1122@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 91 03:34:28 GMT
References: <13275@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
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Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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In article <13275@darkstar.ucsc.edu> t20l011@.ucsc.edu (10024011) writes:
>
>	I bought a new A500 in December of 1989 because I had heard about 
>the fact that the new fatter agnus had been put in the all the 500's since
>April.  I heard this from this newsgroup.  I get my computer and I find out
>that it didn't have the chip in it.  However not in order to get this chip
>that I purchased my computer to get (I had a A1000) I now have to buy it for
>$100 or so.  

CBM may have been putting the new agnus in units *shipped* 4/89.  This
certainly doesn't mean that every unit in storage at that point was junked
simply because it had "old" hardware... Just because you purchased a unit
in 12/89 doesn't mean it was manufactured the day before.  There are always
a lot of units "in the pipeline" at any given point.  I wouldn't be suprised
if CBM doesn't announce 2.0 availability until the units containing it are
ready to hit the stores.  Who's going to want to buy a machine with 1.3 when
2.0 is ready?

>	I want to buy A3000 but now the educational pricing system is all 
>screwed up.  Come on C= get your act together. I have yet to see a letter
>that agrees with the 3 dealers in this area about the pricing deals.  What is
>going on here?  

I'll have to agree with you here.  I have some simpathy for CBM since they
have a new person at the head of the education department, but it has been
a while now, and they need to get some things clear ASAP:
	1.  What are the educational prices (& all attendant details)
	2.  When are they in effect
	3.  They need to make heroic efforts to get these facts to the
	    dealers as soon as possible.

CBM may have the most wonderful educational pricing ever, but if my dealer
hasn't heard about it, or doesn't want to hear about it, it doesn't to me
a lick of good.

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Dave Schaumann | dave@cs.arizona.edu | Short .sig's rule!