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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New Amiga (long range rumors :-))
Message-ID: <1660@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Apr-87 21:43:08 EST
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1660
Posted: Fri Apr 10 21:43:08 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 19:53:46 EST
References: <566@sdiris1.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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Keywords: Amiga Rumors (the amiga 375)

In article <566@sdiris1.UUCP> res@sdiris1.UUCP (Robert Sanders) writes:
>Well, no one asked my source to sign any non-disclosure agreements, so...
>( :-) )
>Current rumors have it that there will be an Amiga 375 released in
>the european market around Christmas (subject to the usuall slips)
>which will be targeted at arount $375 list with fewer easy add ons,
>but still software compatable with the 500/1000/2000... 

That sounds like speculation rather than rumor.  The A500 was engineered from
day 1 to the the lowest cost "real Amiga" that we could design.  You could, of
course, leave out minor things like the keyboard, floppy, memory and power
supply to meet your target price, but add-ons alone won't do it.

It is also quite possible to build a twin joystick arcade game console using the
Amiga chipset, but right now we have better things to work on.  To paraphrase a
a current purveyor of Atari 2600 game consoles, why buy a game console when you
can get a real computer?
-- 
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Commodore, Engineering Department	fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)