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From: klm@munsell.UUCP (Kevin [Being Weird Isn't Enough] McBride)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CBM and upgrade paths
Message-ID: <1350@atkins.munsell.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Nov-87 14:28:42 EST
Article-I.D.: atkins.1350
Posted: Fri Nov  6 14:28:42 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Nov-87 23:22:24 EST
References: <8711040542.AA29099@violet.berkeley.edu> <299@uscacsc.UUCP>
Reply-To: klm@atkins.UUCP (Kevin [Being Weird Isn't Enough] McBride)
Organization: Eikonix Corp., Bedford, MA
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Summary: Let's stop the C= bashing and do something constructive.

In article <299@uscacsc.UUCP> papa@uscacsc.UUCP (Marco Papa) writes:
>OK, Mike, you made your point.  Believe that there are other people that
>are *NOT* CBM, and that disagree with you.

Right on!

Mike, I am sure that there are others who also share your sentiments about
this.  It's obvious that you are very opinionated (and you're entitled to
be that way) and that nobody is going to get you to change your mind.

Likewise, those of us who think that CBM is making a good move are also
very opinionated.  You are not going to change our minds.

I sympathize with your feeling abandoned, but Commodore isn't the only company
that's guilty of pulling standards out from under users' feet.  Data General
stuck it to me real good a few years ago with a CPU architecture change that 
made a whole lot of software break.  It took a couple of man months to sort
out the mess.  They (DG) were discontinuing the older CPU model that I had
been using and told me that the replacement model was identical except for
the fact that they had put the CPU on a 2 chip set instead of a board.  They
didn't mention the fact that the new model no longer had any auto
increment/decrement registers.

				BOOM!

So, let's drop this horse puckey and bashing of CBM and get back to some
real business.  When am I going to be able to get my hands on the BADGE
Killer Demo Disks? :-)  Seriously, though, I feel kind of isolated living
in New Hampshire so far away from the user groups where a lot of this stuff
comes out.  I hate driving into Boston.  Hey, Bob Page, what do you do?

Ok, so I was a little annoyed when I found out about the serial/parallel
change.  That's nothing compared to what DG did to me.  I'm upgrading to
a 2000 even though Future Sound won't work.  I got my order in and am
busy figuring out where I'm gonna scrape up $800 in the next two weeks.

(Omnitek Computers in Salem, NH says that A1000 + $800 = A2000)

-- 
Kevin McBride, the guy in the brace //       | Your mind is totally controlled
Condition improved, but still      //        | It has been stuffed into my mold
no skiing in sight. (:^[)      \\ //  Amiga  | And you will do as you are told
{encore,adelie}!munsell!klm     \X/   Rules! | until the rights to you are sold