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From: eric@topaz.ARPA (Eric Lavitsky)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: Re: Amiga Launch!
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Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 10:25:31 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 29 10:25:31 1985
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Ahem!

	So I was a little high in the clouds... I guess you'll have
to wait and see for yourself. The Amiga will be on dealer shelves 
Sept 15th. Here's what'll be available:

	256K Amiga wmouse and 880K integral 3-1/2" drive	$1295
	256K Upgrade to 512K					  200
	Analog RGB monitor (all 4096 colors, stero speakers)	  495
	External 3-1/2 drive					 ~275
	External 5-1/4 drive (IBM PC-DOS format - 360K)		 ~275

There will be about 20 packages available when the machine is released, 
from games to spreadsheets to a wide variety of languages (C,LISP,LOGO,
Pascal,BASIC,Asembler etc.) - compare that to how many the Mac or PC 
had when they were introduced. A vey workable system (512K and monitor 
w/external floppy) will really run around $2200. If you don't want to 
take full advantage of the Amiga's graphics you can use a TV or composite
NTSC monitor.

Eric
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