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From: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A1000 -> A2000 expansion box?
Message-ID: <721@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Mar-87 01:13:17 EST
Article-I.D.: xanth.721
Posted: Thu Mar 19 01:13:17 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Mar-87 02:50:14 EST
References: <17641@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <186@dcatla.UUCP>
Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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In article <760@hp-sdd.HP.COM> nick@hp-sdd.UUCP (Nick Flor) writes:
>
>Commodore is a great outfit.  They can afford to subsidize.
>It looks like no one seems to care that they're losing the
>extra functionality of the Amiga 2000.

I think the something for nothing discussion has gone on long enough. I
bought an Amiga 1000.  This did not give me a mortgage on Commodore's
future.  To get that, I went out and bought some Commodore common stock.

In case it has already slipped your mind, Commodore was _barely_ rescued
from Title 11 by its bankers.  The bankers, in turn, got a lot of control
of how Commodore is run.  For example, Commodore may not pay dividends on
its common stock until its present indebtedness is take care of (I don't
know the details of what it takes to satisfy this).

Guess how happy _the bankers_ would be if Commodore said: "Guess we'll just
give away 140,000 units * $500 subsidy 'cause we want to be nice guys".  In
case you didn't notice, Commodore was in business before the Amiga, and they
will probably still be in business when it is long forgotten.  In its day,
the C64 dominated its market, and I think it is still the personal computer
with the largest installed base.

Moral:  despite the song of the grasshopper, the world _doesn't_ owe you a
	living.  Acting like you think it does says little for your grasp
	of basic reality.

( Think I'll run for president.  With a winning personality like mine, how
  could I lose?  Besides, we need another technocrat.  Or maybe we could
  bring back JEC and save me the bother. ;-) <N.B., I didn't get that
  nickname for _agreeing_ with people!> )
--
Kent Paul Dolan, "The Contradictor", 25 years as a programmer, CS MS Student
at ODU, Norfolk, Virginia, to find out how I was supposed to be doing this
stuff all these years.  3D dynamic motion graphics a specialty.  Work wanted.
Unemployment is soooo nice though...I never have to disclaim anything!

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