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From: disd@hubcap.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 1000 buy-back & changing standards...
Message-ID: <586@hubcap.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Oct-87 17:43:46 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 22 17:43:46 1987
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in article <2578@cbmvax.UUCP>, hedley@cbmvax.UUCP (Hedley Davis) says:
> You guys MUST be kidding !
> 
> I bought a VCR a long time ago.
> It doesn't have HQ.
> It doesn't have MTS.
> It doesn't have eighty gizillion nice features.
> 
[Other examples of things which have no upgrade policies.]
> 
> Whats the deal ? I guess if you were running things, we'd have consumer
> protection groups making so that you had to upgrade everything for free.
> Of course this would cause the cost of innovation to exceed any
> potential benifits, leading to a complete halt in any effort to
> innovate.
> 
> The price of buying electronics today is that they depreciate. Better 
> electronics will be available in the future at a better price.
> 
> Inherently, the A2000 has many more capabilities than the A1000. 
> The fact we offer any upgrade at all does not alter the fact that your
> machine still runs, and does everything we said it would as well as we
> would. You bought something, and you got a fair deal.
> 
Essentially, I agree with what you say.  I'm an A1000
owner who is, by the way, pleased with the machine and who has no
intention of purchasing an A2000.  I understand that I might be left in
the dust, but for the moment, I've got an exciting home computer which
could keep me happy and busy for years.  

Forgive me if this has been discussed before, but I don't recall it.
Why was there no consideration of an A1000-A500 sidegrade?  I know that
the net crowd consists largely of power users, but surely there must be
a few of us who don't give a flip about Bridge cards and who don't mind
a box or two hanging off of our machines.  I have no major objections to
the VT200-style keyboard and, though I like the detachable keyboard, I
could be content with the all-in-one design of the 500, if it gave me
the chance to increase my CHIP RAM.  I simply can't afford to plunk down
another $1000.  Why are there no A1000 + $100 = A500 deals?  (Or some
such dollar figure.)  

Anyone aware of any dealers with such a deal?  I have no wish to try to
sell my A1000.  


> Hedley Davis

Gary

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*  Gary Heffelfinger       Employed by Clemson Univ. but certainly not
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