Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!princeton!allegra!ulysses!sfmag!sfsup!perry From: perry@sfsup.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Byte A2000 Article Message-ID: <1154@sfsup.UUCP> Date: Tue, 3-Mar-87 10:57:00 EST Article-I.D.: sfsup.1154 Posted: Tue Mar 3 10:57:00 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 7-Mar-87 04:59:11 EST References: <9599@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> <544@cti.cti.UUCP> <5774@amdahl.UUCP> Organization: AT&T-IS, Summit N.J. USA Lines: 57 Summary: Don't Trash Your A1000 In article <5774@amdahl.UUCP>, acs@amdahl.UUCP writes: > I've head that Commodore is gonna phase out the A-1000. > The intro over, I've gotta admit that I'm not pleased with the rumor that > the A-1000 is going away. I know several people that have (or are in the > process of) selling their 1000s so they can get the 2000. The A2000 gives no new functionality or performance benefit over the A1000 apart from the (very attractive) capability for internal expansion. Owners of the A1000 have no reason to part with their current machine in favor of the A2000 (apart from wanting the best and latest of everything). Prospective Amiga owners with serious needs should of course consider the A2000 in their purchase plans. However, there are 200,000 plus A1000 own- ers out there who will be perfectly well served by existing third party expansion products (from reputable and not so reputable companies). Certainly if you have money invested in A1000 expansion hardware, there's more the consider than just unloading your c.p.u. cabinet. If you had purchased a full Zorro spec expansion board (to reside in a Zorro expansion box) you will have the opportunity to purchase from third party manufacturers some kind of widget which will allow you attach A2000 boards to an A1000. ASDG provides a full buy back to owners of our Mini-Rack-C and D when they wish to upgrade to a larger box. They send us in their current box, deduct the amount they paid for it from the cost of the new box, and (poof) a new box shows up (rather this is the way it *will* work when the new box is ready). The new box from us (working name A1500, I know! I know!) will provide two Zorro I (see! I coined another Amiga word (from the same man who brought you Fish Disks - they were Fred Fish's Freely Redistributable Software Library before I called them Fish Dicks in public one night, the rest is as they say, history)) slots for A1000 Zorro boards. The box also contains an 86 pin connector a la A2000, and a full A2000 Zorro II bus (with pc connectors). There's also space and power for two disk drives. We expect to provide this product at about $650.00 (less for ASDG custom- ers). The point of this message is to provide new information for concerned A1000 owners by dispelling some of their fears about being left out in the cold. ASDG is not the only manufacturer who has pledged to produce a prod- uct of this type. In deciding if it is a good idea to upgrade your A1000 to an A2000 (by selling it or by buying an A1500 type box) assess the costs of each path. Remember to include consideration for what you're going to do with your existing expansion products. (if you bought a slap-on-the-side doo-hickey, you're out of luck with respect to forward compatibility - but then - I've saying that all along). Perry S. Kivolowitz