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From: mwm@eris.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CBM and upgrade paths
Message-ID: <5940@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Tue, 17-Nov-87 01:41:39 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 17 01:41:39 1987
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In article <1051@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
<How about waiting for the Amiga 3000? I don't know about you, but I don't
<think paying another $1000 for the same computer I already have as an
<upgrade.

While I agree with the sentiments, I can't agree with the statement.
It's *not* the same computer. They built it into an ugly IBM-PC shaped
box (complete with missing features) so that IBM cards would go into
it. They made the keyboard look more like an ISO ("an international
standard so *everyone* can hate it") keyboard, without quite going to
full ISO.

They also added one slot which will require a tower in an A1000, if
you can do it at all, and the ability to put in more chip memory
(which may be doable with a tower).

If it *were* the same computer, that'd be an improvement.

	<mike
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