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From: bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A1000 -> A2000 upgrade offer, yet again...
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Date: Sun, 25-Oct-87 21:11:53 EST
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Summary: Sorry, Apple has done the same thing.

In article <5596@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer) writes:
>
>Yeah, it's a nice thing to do. About the same as the Apple upgrade for
>old Mac owners when the Fat Mac came out - except that upgrade didn't
>leave people stuck with old expansion products that wouldn't work on
>the new machine.

Go one upgrade more... to the Mac plus.  They changed the connectors!
(Sound familiar?).  The plus has mini-8 connectors where the older Mac
had D-9's.  This left people with all sorts of incompatible cables and
plug ins.  To top things off they removed the +5 and +12 volt power so
thunderscan and the like were so much garbage.  Remember, those ports
are the only expansion connectors anything less than a Mac SE has. 
Adaptors are possible, however the same is true for many of the A500/A1000/
A2000 problems.

Apple charged an arm and two legs for the 512K upgrade.  (Which is probably
why so many third parties offered it cheaper)

Did I mention single sided disks?  Or how about the ROM upgrade?  It comes
bundled with a double sided disk drive for the bargain price of just $300...
and nobody seems to be discounting that one, even.

ROM upgrades on the Mac are at least $75... consider that $15 Kickstart
a real bargain.



>"The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose
>from."

That sums it up perfectly.  I sure hope the "bus of the month" club
subscription is over.  "Keyboard of the week" is another historical
Commodore favorite.  The A1000 keyboard was fine.  The A500 keyboard
is as good or better.  The A2000 keyboard needs some help.

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