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From: pwvicory@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Paul William Vicory)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Amiga 1000 Abandonment
Summary: Survival of the Most Fit
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.042851.8912@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 25 Apr 91 04:28:51 GMT
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     This may be very late and old news, but I would like to express the
concerns of both myself and of many (5-6 Amiga 1000 users) , O.K., several
of my friends. All of us spent over $1300 in 1986 to invest in what we felt
was the wave of the future in computers: the Commodore Amiga 1000. My dis-
pute isn't with whether our choice was right or not, but it is a concern
to us that our Amiga's appear to be worthless in the computer marketplace.
Right now, I can't give my Amiga 1000 away. I would like to upgrade, but I
will never be able to justify or allow it if I can't sell the computer I have.
Will Commodore, if they are really interested in selling the new Amiga's,
offer some kind of discount to those who invested heavily in the Amiga at
the outset. None of us could take advantage of the Commodore buyback offer
of last year: we were all still paying off or recovering from the loans we
took out to get these Amiga's. 
     If I read Doug Barney's most recent editorial correctly, perhaps the
Amiga is finished and a deadend path as far as computers go. If the Amiga
goes the way of the C=64, my previous computer expenditure and waste of
dollars that could have gone into a system (like an IBM) that I could have
upgraded and still be using today, I will certainly not recommend or purchase
Commodore products in the future.