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From: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom SALES)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 1000 buy-back & changing standards...
Message-ID: <2577@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Oct-87 10:00:39 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 22 10:00:39 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 25-Oct-87 01:42:50 EST
References: <598@elxsi.UUCP>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <598@elxsi.UUCP>, wilkes@beatnix.UUCP (John Wilkes) says:
> When I bought my Amiga back in September 1985, I paid something on
> the order of $3000 for the privilege.  (This for 512K, 1080 monitor,
> external 3.5in floppy drive.)

I fail to see how you spent this much.  The SUGGESTED LIST PRICES were:

$1295
  195
  495
  295
-----
$2280

> I had to wait 3 months or so to buy the Amiga C compiler.  This C compiler
> was actually Lattice C.  Now Lattice C has been upgraded *twice* since
> then, but I have not heard a peep out of Commode-or.

Lattice will upgrade their products that were sold under our name, so you
can talk to them.

> Sometime later I coughed up $700 for one of the first commercially
> available 2M ram expansion boards.
> As mwm pointed out, this board is now incompatible with everything else
> in the expansion marketplace, thanks to the oft-changed expansion specs
> from Commode-or.  I figure I've got easily over $4000 invested in this
> now-obsolete system.

I make that $2280 + $700, which is $2980, not $4000.

> And now they want me to spend an additional $1000 for
> the privilege of turning in my A1000 for a A2000?

Let's look at this more closely.  There are still tons of
A1000's out there, so I see no reason why you couldn't sell your
memory add-on board at a user group to an A1000 owner.

Beside the memory, let's look at your other products.  The monitor
and external disk drive can be used with the A2000.  The only product
not part of our trade-in which would be of no further use to you is
the A1050 256K RAM, so the value of your trade-in (what you paid
for it, worst case) is:

$1295
  195
-----
$1490

The A2000 upgrade program is essentially a $995 trade-in value for
your A1000 ($1995 - $1000 = $995).

Therefore, if we're offering a $995 trade-in, and your outlay was $1490,
that's only $500 depreciation in over two years.  I'd say that's not
bad.  Has IBM offered a program for the PS/2 line?

> Then more $$$ for 2M of expansion ram?

Which if you've sold your perfectly good A1000 RAM, that money can go
toward.

> How much more $$$ for a hard disk?

Which you currently don't even own and are not forced to buy and which
is a less expensive peripheral on the A2000 than it is on the A1000
so you're saving money there.

> No thanks.  I spent my $2400 on somebody else's obsolete hardware.
> [describes discontinued UNIX box].

I hope you'll be very happy with your decision.

> I'll still keep my A1000, if only to be able to see Leo's work.
> Remember the five finger trick?  Or was it the middle finger trick?

I'll say it again - whoever believes this is clearly in the minority
based on the overwhelming success of our trade-in program, and our
current sales volume.

>   John Wilkes --- UUCP: (work) {ucbvax,ihnp4}!sun!elxsi!wilkes

	Paul.