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From: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CBM and upgrade paths
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Date: Tue, 17-Nov-87 00:23:29 EST
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In article <2756@cbmvax.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
<Mike, in case you didn't notice.  The A2000 just happens to have an 86
<pin connector in it.  It's cleverly described as either the MMU connector
<or the coprocessor slot.  It just happens (who me?) to have the same
<pinout as the 86 pin as the A1000 expansion connecter, but of course in
<true West Chester fashion, the sex has been changed,
			    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Why does this not surprise me?

<but this actually is
<a good thing, or at least the only reasonable solution.

Why is this a good thing? Or even the only reasonable solution? Looks
like yet more of the VIC-20/C64/C128 stuff I expect from CBM.

<Now this connector can be used just like the A1000 expansion connector,
<You might want to ask why this little coincidence came to be.  First,
<it does give the technically sophisticated A1000 user a little bit of
<a temporary upgrade path, albeit messy and unsupported, but sooner or

So why hasn't it been mentioned sooner?

<Now I think I may have been the person who set you off on this prolonged
<tirade in the first place, when you came up with a perhaps justifiably
<paranoid interpretation of a comment I made.

Yes, you started it. Though Barry Shein also had something to do with
prolonging it.

<Now to work back around to my original comment, if you prefer the A1000, fine.

Right. From where I sit, the only advantage the "upgrade" has is being
able to go to more chip ram in the future - which may or may not be
doable on an A1000.

<If you like newer and in some ways better toys

Snicker.

<there's a special deal on, and now's a good time to take advantage of
<it, since I don't see it continuing much longer, nor a better deal coming
<along in a hurry.

Nah - 6 or 7 months should see the A2000 available via mail order for
the $1000-$1300 it's selling for now (with upgrade+buyback). It's
already selling for <$1600 *without* the buy back, and < $700 with.

	<mike
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