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From: doctorj@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeffrey W Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga 1000 Abandonment
Summary: The hardcore will survive...
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.053110.24755@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 25 Apr 91 05:31:10 GMT
References: <1991Apr25.042851.8912@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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In article <1991Apr25.042851.8912@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> pwvicory@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Paul William Vicory) writes:
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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.
>     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.

I don't believe that the Amiga will ever really be a deadend machine.  The
A1000 has been abandoned by C=, but it will never die (as far as I am
concerned).  I have 2 A1000's (one I purchased 2 months ago) that will keep
up with the rest of the pack.  I liked the design and hardware architecture
back in '86 when I bought the first one and still do.  What current
limitations are bothering you anyways?

The A500 is currently in production and their peripherals work on the A1000
if you turn them around.  All you need to get up to date (completely) with
the rest is a Rejuvenator board.  This will give you the up-to-date
architecture requred for the Enhanced chip set, A500/2000 compatable clock,
video slot (lets see that on a 500), etc.  The only real intangible is to
have totally 32-bit wide memory/bus as in the A3000.  And once you have
made these UPDATES, the door is open to practically everything else.

I run an 020 A1000 system w/4M 32-bit memory.  I can afford this BECAUSE it
is on an A1000.  If there is something that can be done on an A2000 that I
cannot do, I would sure like to hear it!

(And I can run the *A3000* version of KS2.0 NOW!  No software modifications
 either!  All on an outdated, unsupported, deadended, ancient A1000!)  :-)
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