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From: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Obsolescence of A1000
Message-ID: <0VUc38y00Uha4Dk041@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Sun, 25-Oct-87 17:52:56 EST
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Posted: Sun Oct 25 17:52:56 1987
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grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:

> All the Perry's A2000+1 box pays for PC compatibilty is the extra
> connectors for the PC/AT slots.  This is no big deal compared to
> the cost of the PC board, power supply and metal work.

Then why do the MiniRack-C and MiniRack-D cost several hundred
dollars less than the 2000-and-1?  Really, I don't want to pay
for two A1000 form-factor slots plus all the PC slots and the
coprocessor slot.

Plain and simply put, if I had the money to buy the 2000-and-1
box (or the $1000 for the 1000 ==> 2000 upgrade) I would simply
buy a hard disk for my 1000 and be done with it.  By the time I
can afford these options, they won't be available to me anymore.
My expansion desires are very simple; a few meg of memory and a
reasonable-sized hard disk.  It was hard enough to afford A1000
expansion before the 500/2000 came out; the new machines will
only make it worse by drying up the A1000 market.  I'm not
bellyaching about the fact the A1000 expansion market will be
trashed; what I am complaining about is that nobody is offering a
*****LOW COST***** way to use A2000 peripheral cards.  I'm sure
at least one other person on the net feels the same way I do. 

> Perry has tried hard to provide a solid foundation for Amiga
> expansion, and this product looks like it should be the bridge
> between A1000 and A2000 expansion products.  I hope he is able to
> make this a very successful product. 

I think the 2000-and-1 is a very nice product as well;
unfortunately, it does not meet my expansion requirements.  Am I
being too selfish in asking for a modest, not excessive, upgrade
path for the future? 

			--M
			
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