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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CEBIT Commodore Announcements (A2500, A3000)
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Date: 24 Mar 88 22:36:43 GMT
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In article <1712@louie.udel.EDU> rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich) writes:
->>Availibility: 4th Quarter 1988
->>Cost: A 2500UX (Includes A2000, A2620 (68020CPU, 68881FPU, 68851MMU),
->>		A2024 Hi-Res Monitor, 100MB Harddisk (SCSI), Tape Backup
->>		System (60MB ?) and  **REAL** AT&T Unix V.3)
->>      will cost appr. 13000.- DM ( ca. $7500)
->   Arg. No Ethernet port? You can't sell it to a company or university
->that way! 
->   Arg Arg. $7500 ?? If this comes out in 4Q 88 they are going to 
->be competing with fast machines with bigger disks that are in the
->$4-5 range (no i can not mention a company). This is just too high.
[Sounds like the mythical Next beast ^^^^]

Well, if you add ethernet it goes to $8.4K. It would be cheaper than a
3/50 with a SCSI disk/tape (about $9K). And definitely cheaper than a
Mac II considering that the color is built in and the keyboard is a 
standard accessory. So I don't think C/A priced it incorrectly. Of 
course there is a chance that this price is a total sham, like the original
$1495 estimated price of the 2000 and the 'significantly less than $1000'
sidecar (which came in at $995 I believe).


--Chuck McManis
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