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From: grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Byte A2000 Article
Message-ID: <1498@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Mar-87 16:25:04 EST
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1498
Posted: Thu Mar  5 16:25:04 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Mar-87 05:46:58 EST
References: <9599@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> <544@cti.cti.UUCP> <5774@amdahl.UUCP> <1154@sfsup.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <1154@sfsup.UUCP> perry@sfsup.UUCP writes:
>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).

The biggest number I've heard is still 150,000.  Leting your market projections
grow like fishing stories can lead to unpleasant surprises.

>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. 

Hey boy, keepa you face outa our numbuz.  8-)  You never know, if there is
continuing demand for something looking like an A1000, *we* might want to
make a new main board with ROM and 1MB, etc and call it an A1500...

>Perry S. Kivolowitz
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