Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!lll-winken!aunro!alberta!ami-cg!cg From: cg@ami-cg.UUCP (Chris Gray) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Power up program available to Canadians? Message-ID: Date: 4 Jun 91 04:36:09 GMT References: <6617@gara.une.oz.au> <1991May27.132659.4949@daimi.aau.dk> <1991May28.130215.16226@IRO.UMontreal.CA> <1991Jun3.162433.17823@watserv1.waterloo.edu> Organization: Not an Organization Lines: 32 In article <1991Jun3.162433.17823@watserv1.waterloo.edu> tcapener@watserv1.waterloo.edu (CAPENER TD - ENGLISH ) writes: >Actually, C= offered the Power-Up program in Canada from March until 17 May. >Don't worry, I never heard about it either until I read the ad for the >American Power-Up in AmigaWorld. I went to my dealer on 15 May and got >a major run around, but eventually they sold me an A3000 under the Power-Up >prices. Great advertising on the part of C= Canada, eh? What's worse, >while Compucentre assured me up and down that I could trade in my A2000, >my local dealer was adamant that only C64s and C128s could be traded in. > >Oh well, hope you can get a machine in the states... I wandered into a computer store last Friday and asked about the power-up program. They said it has been extended until June 31, just like in the U.S. Delivery was expected to be about 1 week. (This is in Edmonton.) For the front page of my ancient A1000 manual plus < $4000 CDN I can get an A3000-25/50 with A1950. I'm thinking real hard about it. Not sure what to do with this A2500, however - there are some games I can't run on the A1000 because it has only 512K, but those same games won't run on the A3000. I use this system mostly for development, but I do play games some. P.S. A question: the offer requires the front page of the manual with a serial number, supposedly. What serial number? Neither my A1000 page nor my A2000 page has a machine serial number on it. They both have CBM parts numbers, copyrights, etc. Is that what is being referred to? (Both of my machines are fairly old.) Or am I supposed to find the serial number and just write it on those pages? -- Chris Gray alberta!ami-cg!cg or cg%ami-cg@scapa.cs.UAlberta.CA