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From: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: r.e. Simons comments of 20 Feb '87...
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Date: Mon, 23-Feb-87 16:27:22 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 23 16:27:22 1987
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Summary: Apple not a good deal

In article <8702220708.AA17612@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, UD140469@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Scott Udell) writes:
> Wouldn't it be great if Atari started an major tradein/upgrade policy?
> Take for instance Apple and the Apple II--I hear that you will be able to
> upgrade an Apple II+ to an Apple IIGS with a board upgrade that,  while still
> expensive, isn't the price of a new GS. 
> Comments, anybody?
>                                         Scott Udell

According to a Letter to computer currents from an irate Apple II+ owner
the cost of the GS upgrade does not include some mandatory items, 
specifically the cost is broken dow into :
	GS Motherboard		  $499
	Dealer Installation	   $40
	New Disk Drive (3.5")	  $500
	RGB Monitor		  $499
	New cables (modem,prt)	   $50
	Cooling Fan		   $40
				-------
		Cost To Upgrade	$1,628

So why upgrade? You can get an Amiga or Atari instead. This was what the
reader claimed he would do.


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