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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 1000 buy-back & changing standards....
Message-ID: <2575@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Oct-87 03:44:45 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2575
Posted: Thu Oct 22 03:44:45 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 24-Oct-87 21:30:11 EDT
References: <5550@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <598@elxsi.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <598@elxsi.UUCP> wilkes@beatnix.UUCP (John Wilkes) writes:
> mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer) writes:
> >Warning: I'm about to vent a lot of steam at Commodore.
> >
> >Gee, what a neat buy-back program. Something else to leave me stuck
> >with obsolete hardware.
> 
> [You hear a loud hissing - the sound of escaping steam...]
> 
> >But now I hear "The 1000 -> 2000 upgrade is being offered only to
> >A1000 owners. That should tell you what we have in mind for the 1000."
> >And the A2000 has hooks for more CHIP ram, and the video slot. Well,
> 
> Yeah, I'm pretty disenchanted with Comode-or myself.  Especially the above
> quotation that recently emenated from somewhere in Pennsylvania.  (Hi,
> George.  I hope you don't get in deep yogurt for that one.)

Nah.  If you'll check, it's not a quotation, rather it's an interpretation by a
rather unhappy Mike Meyer.  This follows a prolonged trail of discussion about
the possibilities of upgrading A1000's and what Commodore has done to/for the
A1000 owner.

I've previously pointed out that I don't believe that a simple slap in/on chip
upgrade for the A1000 is technically feasible.  Some people feel that they've
been left in the lurch by the direction that Commodore took with the A2000.  I
merely note that Commodore has in fact extended an upgrade offer to those A1000
owners.  It may or may not appeal the a particular A1000 owner, depending on
their configuration, interests, loyalties, etc.

My intention was to point out that this is an offer that Commodore has put on
the table and to politely discourage wishful thinking about options that might
well fail to materialize sometime after the expiration of said upgrade offer.

-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {ihnp4|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!grr
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