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From: kim@amdahl.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Expansion product woes
Message-ID: <6133@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Apr-87 15:53:19 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  8 15:53:19 1987
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In article <10791@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>, lachac@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Gerard Lachac) writes:
> 
> From what I was told recently, some hardware companies aren't too happy that
> CBM is "undercutting the third party hardware developer" by offering the 
> current A1000 owners A2000 upgrades.  It seems they feel that there may not
> be a reasonable market share of people willing to buy A1000 to A2000 card 
> cages to warrant going ahead and building them.

On the other hand, this could be very good incentive for 3rd party
developers to provide some "value added" features that are not available
in the A2000 itself ... like MORE SLOTS.

With an expansion box offering more fundamental capability than the
A2000, the only reasons I can see to upgrade to the 2000 would be
for the VIDEO slot capability it has, and for a reduced overall footprint.

/kim


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