Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.hardware:8956 comp.sys.amiga.misc:3412 comp.sys.amiga.marketplace:1145 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!uunet!bywater!arnor!biko!sck From: sck@watson.ibm.com (Scott C. Kennedy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.marketplace Subject: Re: NEW Commodore Upgrade for A1000 Owners! Message-ID: <1991May8.144221.4255@watson.ibm.com> Date: 8 May 91 14:42:21 GMT References: <1991May07.224440.2764@ariel.unm.edu> Sender: news@watson.ibm.com (NNTP News Poster) Reply-To: sck@biko.watson.ibm.com (Scott C. Kennedy) Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Lines: 32 Nntp-Posting-Host: biko In article , tbissett@nstar.rn.com (Travis Bissett) writes: |> kholland@hydra.unm.edu (Kiernan Holland) writes: |> |> [ much cussin' and swearin' about the latest power upgrade offer] |> |> [ sheesh! This poor sap is Real Unhappy! He keeps goin' on . . .] |> |> [ more drivel and mental bilgewater about how the new deal screws students |> and the general public.] |> |> > the multi-scan (cost me 600 dollars). I'm buying a NeXT or IBM 486. |> > To hell with you Commodore. And I know your employees and lines are on these |> > networks. If I could sue you I would. |> |> You lost all credibility with that last comment, Dude. Apparently you have |> far more dollars than you have sense -- from the evidence in your posting |> about your A2000 bad deal to get an A3000 at student discount. I almost had |> some sympathy for you. Almost . . . afterall it may be annoying to find you |> could have saved 50% instead of 30% by waiting a few more months. When did |> oyu buy yours, last year? |> go buy a NeXT or an IBM 486 . . . well, you clearly have far too much cash He won't be happy with IBM either, we just lowered prices on our Risc SYstem 6000 by 60% and we are reducing prices on our PS/2s. Maybe if Commodore raised their prices, he would be happier. :) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scott C. Kennedy (sck@watson.ibm.com) | "All we are saying ... Distributed High Performance Computing | is give peace a chance..." I.B.M. Thomas J. Watson Research Facility | John Lennon - Dec. 8, 1980 ------------------------------------------------------------------------