Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!boingo.med.jhu.edu!haven.umd.edu!uvaarpa!vger.nsu.edu!manes From: manes@vger.nsu.edu ((Mark D. Manes), Norfolk State University) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Amiga 1000 Abandonment Message-ID: <888.2817f5a9@vger.nsu.edu> Date: 26 Apr 91 13:40:57 GMT References: <1991Apr25.042851.8912@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> Followup-To: don't e-mail Lines: 78 In article <1991Apr25.042851.8912@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>, pwvicory@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Paul William Vicory) writes: Sigh... Here we go again. My tissue is in my hand...tears are streaming down my face. Now that the stage is set: > 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 Actually you can give it away! I'll take it! However after reading this message you probably won't want too. > 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 Actually if Doug Barney thinks the Amiga is finished, it improves my opinion of Commodore and the Commodore marketplace in general. Doug Barney is a twit plain and simple. > 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. You know it is funny. I _never_ see these kind of postings from anyone but Amiga 1000 owners. I have never seen it on any other platform that I can think of. And there are certainly _real_ cases of abadonment on other computer platforms. Remember the Apple Lisa? How about the PCjr? However, the reason for my followup was to flame you a bit for posting such a whine, and to give you this bit of news. Commodore has announced "yet another" trade-in like deal. Here is the scoop! Commodore will give up to $1500 for _any_ Commodore computer including the Vic 20, C64, C128, AMIGA 1000, A500, A2000 if you purchase a Amiga 3000 by June 30th. Here is the deal. Commodore will give you the following off if you purchase: Amiga 3000 (25mhz/5mb/100mb HD) --- $1500 off Amiga 3000 (25mhz/2mb/50mb HD) --- $1250 off Amiga 3000 (16mhz/2mb/50mb HD) --- $1150 off Your requirements: - You must bring in the front cover of your owners manual (not a copy!) - On that cover the serial number of your CPU must be written That's the deal, and in my opinion, a most _excellent_ deal. For about $1600 you can have a nice new shiney A3000! Now, please do me a favor and stop whining. This is essentially the _third_ time Commodore has given you to upgrade. Please do it this time...or forever hold your peace! By the way I have a Amiga 10000 with 2.5 mb of memory at home, in case you are wondering. -mark= +--------+ ================================================== | \/ | Mark D. Manes "Mr. AmigaVision, The 32 bit guy" | /\ \/ | manes@vger.nsu.edu | / | (804) 683-2532 "Make up your own mind! - AMIGA" +--------+ ==================================================