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From: chapman@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Brent Chapman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A1000 -> A2000 expansion box?
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Date: Tue, 17-Mar-87 22:55:22 EST
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In article <760@hp-sdd.HP.COM> nick@hp-sdd.UUCP (Nick Flor) writes:
>In article <10164@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> lachac@topaz.rutgers.edu (Gerard Lachac) writes:

>>Unless of course someone offers me something better at a cheaper price :-)
 
>Hey, none of this smiley face BS.  That last sentence should have read:
>
>"Unless Commodore offers to subsidize in which case I will pay a cheaper
> price."
>
>Commodore is a great outfit.  They can afford to subsidize.
>It looks like noone seems to care that they're losing the
>extra functionality of the Amiga 2000.

By extension of your arguement, I suppose I should expect Apple to
subsidize my expansion from a II+ to a Mac+?  They're both "+" machines,
after all...  Or how about IBM subsidizing my expansion from an original
version PC (64k, no disk) to an AT?

You've got to realize something if you're going to stay happy in the computer
game (especially when dealing with micros):  In a year, anything you buy now
will be half as good and cost half as much.  If you admit this to yourself,
then you can enjoy yourself and get some work done.  Otherwise, you end
up doing one of two things:  You keep waiting and waiting, and never buying,
because "something better" will be out "real soon now", or you go ahead
and buy and kick yourself to death six months down the line.  I speak from
experience:  The first micros I did any serious work with were the old
Commodore Pets.  Then I moved up to a Zenith Z-89 (soon upgraded to a
Z-90, and which _still_ has more disk space than any other system I've ever
owned).  I bought an Apple II+ when it was a neat system.  I paid about 
$5000 for it, all told, over several years.  I could buy an equivalent
Apple system today for < $1000.  So far, I've sunk only a little more
than half that $5000 into my Amiga, and already I have a system that
is easily 20 times as useful and useable.  So it goes...  Quit your
bitchin', and sit back and enjoy the ride...


Brent
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Brent Chapman

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