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From: rmeyers@tle.dec.com.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Amiga 1000 to Amiga 2000 Upgrade
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Date: Thu, 26-Mar-87 00:31:54 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 26 00:31:54 1987
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I just got back from the Boston Computer Society general meeting where
the Amiga 2000 was demonstrated.  Commodore was there in force:  President
of Commodore Tom Rattigan, software wizards RJ Michal and Dale Luck, 
engineering reps from Germany and Pennsylvania, and a handful of others.

There were about three or four Amiga 2000s sitting out for people to play
with.  The machines were so mobbed I couldn't get close enough to count
them.  There were no Amiga 500s, however.

Commodore "announced" two new pieces of information:

First, a working prototype of the AT bridge card was shown.  Literally,
they held up this card and said it was the AT card.  I do not know if
they plugged it in a machine so people could see it running.  They were
careful to state that this was not yet a product and a delivery date
was not set.

Second, an Amiga 1000 to Amiga 2000 upgrade was mentioned.

An Amiga 1000 owner from the audience asked what was Commodore was
going to do for him.  He worried that the Amiga 1000 was an orphan
and that no one would write software for it as opposed to the Amiga
500 and Amiga 2000.  (Sigh, the fellow had wax in his ears, or between
them: the Amiga 1000 is completely software compatible with the 500 and
2000.  The only thing to worry about is Amiga 1000 hardware upgrades.)

Anyway, the Commodore president gave a rather bland answer, but one
of the random Commodore representatives chimed in with "And you can
take advantage of the trade up policy to trade your Amiga 1000 in on
an Amiga 2000."  After the presentation was over, while people were
milling around playing with the machines and talking to the luminaries
at the meeting, I asked the rep who mentioned the trade up policy
for more details.  She said that details were not finial, but Commodore
was thinking of something like you give them a Amiga 1000 and $1000
and they give you a new Amiga 2000.

I have no idea if the Commodore representative was authorized to
mention the trade up policy: it could be they shot her after the
show.
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Randy Meyers, not representing Digital Equipment Corporation

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