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From: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
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Subject: Re: NEW Commodore Upgrade for A1000 Owners!
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Date: 8 May 91 16:31:06 GMT
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In article <1991May7.170158.10700@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> jdickson@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Jeff Dickson) writes:
>In article <1991May2.212838.1753@HQ.Ileaf.COM> ltaylor@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Laura Taylor) writes:
>>I haven't seen any mention of this in any of the Amiga newsgroups,
>>so maybe you haven't heard the good news yet!  All you A1000 owners
>>can stop yer moanin' and groanin'. Commodore just announced a new
>>upgrade called the "Power Up Upgrade." What you do is take the
>>_original_ cover of your A1000 manual to your nearest dealer,
>>with the serial # handwritten on the back of the cover, and they
>>will sell you an A3000 for $1849! For this price you get the
>>A3000 (sans monitor) with a 16Mhz 68030 and a 50mb hard disk.
>>If you want to pay $2249 instead of $1849, you can get a faster
>>clock...but now I forgot how fast...25Mhz probably.  
>>
>>ltaylor@ileaf.com
>
>	I've had my Amiga 1000 since 1985. I doubt that I still have the
>manual cover. Is there an alternative? Howbout if I take the entire Amiga
>in?
>
>-jeff

  I know of Amiga 1000 owners who lost their computers in the first trade up
offer. Apparantly some dealers were taking the entire a1000, or just the
motherboards, or just the keyboards. Maybe now Commodore should have an
a1000 BuyBackYourMotherboard offer. :)


-- 
           David Tiberio  SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481  AMIGA  DDD-MEN   
   "If you think that we're here for the money, we could live without it.
     But the world isn't too good here, and it wasn't always like that."
                   Un ragazzo di Casalbordino, Italia.