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From: bishop@skat.usc.edu (Brian Bishop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CEBIT Commodore Announcements (A2500, A3000), shipping RSN
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Date: 24 Mar 88 05:05:05 GMT
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Summary: Let me tell you a story....

In article <8803240324.AA28576@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>>For example, how about the CEBIT announcement about enhanced graphics
>>chips being available sometime (with no interlace) for the 500 and
>>2000.  THERE'S A NUMBER MISSING IN THERE, COMMODORE.  HEAR ME???
>
>	Essentially, you are pissed off because CA fixed some problems
>with the expansion bus and added some traces to the A500/A2000 
>motherboards for future expandability, and are now cashing in on their
>previous planning.  Frankly, it makes no sense for a company to pull
>
  It's really ironic that one of the main gripes about the 2000 was that it
cost more and had no improvements over the 1000 other than IBM compatibility.
(I'm not saying the original poster said that) Apparently some of those
benefits are just now showing themselves. If I had known this was coming
I'd have thought over the trade-in offer much differently.

>
>	Sure, there are some things which may not be moveable or upgradable.
>The world turns and if you stop, it will move on without you.  Hell, people
>still use PDP11/70s for godsakes!  Do you think they are missing out on
 [ We've still got two KL10's..... ]

  I started with an Apple II. Not plus, just a two. Great learning machine -
built in mini-assembler, etc.  When the Mac came out I couldn't believe it.
Went into hock to get one. Semi-happiness reigns. Bitmapped graphics! Then
the Amiga. At first I was mad. It seemed like they had taken every Mac
feature and gone one better: A little more resolution, color, double-sided
disks, coprocessors, bus access, etc. :-) I went into sub-hock and bought a
package with the free monitor (thanks CBM! It's really a *great* monitor).
Two years later. The Amiga's paid off. The Mac isn't. The Amiga's value 
increases daily (subjective). I still have the Mac - it's better for print-
ing (but that's about it), and I couldn't get very much for it anyway.
It's too obsolete! What with the Mac Plus, Mac SE, and Mac II. I can't get
double sided drives or a new set of ROM's because -horror!- I got a
THIRD PARTY MEMORY UPGRADE!!! 

With this lawsuit and all, I really can't tell big fruit from big blue
anymore.

 Way to go Commodore, keep it up!!

brian bishop                            ---> bishop@usc-ecl.ARPA               
(uscvax,sdcvdef,engvax,scgvaxd,smeagol) ---> usc-skat!bishop.UUCP

"You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic
condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time,
every creature that lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat
of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life.
Everywhere in the universe." 
                             - Wilbur Mercer, founder of Mercerism

have a nice day fnord.