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From: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Give The Amiga Some Credit Already!
Message-ID: <7085@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 91 15:05:51 GMT
References: <5220@orbit.cts.com>
Reply-To: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones)
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa
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In article <5220@orbit.cts.com> chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch) writes:
>Heh.. you mean the MM/1.  This machine is still vaporware from what i
>understand, since i know people that have expressed that they would buy it if
>they could.

Well, then, I'm typing on vapor, I guess, since an MM/1 is sitting in front
of me. :-)  (For completeness's sake, I should mention that I'm waiting on
part of it--IMS has been delayed thanks to a Western Digital SCSI chip that
does not perform as advertised.)

>Last price i heard was 1800.  have they lowered their estimated cost?

I paid $975 for a "kit" (needs a screwdriver and a drill, the latter to put
holes in the right place in a PClone case) plus case, which is something like
$200 under what it would otherwise have been (assembled).  Now, by the time I
add the cost of keyboard, Magnavox 1CM135 monitor, a couple megabytes of RAM,
and a Quantum 105 Mbyte SCSI drive, yeah, it's pushing $2K.

>Umm.. actually they  were created for people who wanted OS/9 on a 68000
>(OS/K).  they threw in the extras to "show off".  there's no real thought out
>reason for much of it.  no Blitters.. etc..

Hmmm...no blitters, so they must not have thought about the design.  I don't
quite see how that follows. :-)

	James Jones (unassociated with IMS, save as a customer)