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From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga 1000 Abandonment
Message-ID: <9105010706.44@rmkhome.UUCP>
Date: 1 May 91 16:07:00 GMT
References: <1991Apr25.042851.8912@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> <20962@cbmvax.c <1991Apr29.042923.19672@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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In article <1991Apr29.042923.19672@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> sharley@isis.UUCP (steve harley) writes:
>
>in Dave Haynie's article (which i can't quote due to broken software), he
>says to effect: you can't upgrade 128K or 512K macs.  actually, these macs
>are about as upgradable as an A1000.  you can take them just about as far
>as you can a Plus with SCSI ports, memory, accellerators and display
>adaptors. (the only thing you can't do is emulate an Amiga ;)

The price for upgrading a Mac 128k or 512k to a PLUS is roughly equivalent
to just buying a new Classic.  This is assuming that Apple still supports
hardware upgrades on ancient Macs.

There are lots of third party upgrades for the A1000.


Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	frog!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP