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From: mykes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Schwartz)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: save your money
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Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 17:26:39 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 10 17:26:39 1985
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I hear it from extremely good authority that CardCo, a company that has
made lots of peripherals for the Commodore 64 will be introducing a 1MB
expansion card for the AMIGA for the price of $195 or $295.  I understand
that multiple boards can be used to expand past 1MB.  Supposedly, there is
a prototype board at the FCC right now, so it should be soon.

I really think the AMIGA is the machine to end all machines, but we users
should do our best to make sure that thieves like Tecmar do not overprice
the peripherals, making a system prohibitive to the average home consumer and 
small business user.  I think we should wait for Cardco's board and make 
Tecmar eat as many boards as they make.  

I also hear that Commodore is planning to drop the price of the Amiga after
Christmas.  Commodore and Amiga have done everything in their power to not
make the same MISTAKES as Apple (JokeIntosh) and IBM (PC = pretty crummy).
Just because a 512K Amiga cries out desparately for more RAM doesn't mean
that we need to pay for 5 MB and get 1MB.

I also think that for $1500, we should be able to buy a 140MB hard disk.  I
know for a fact that Priam makes 140MB disks for well under $1000.