Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!schein
From: schein@cbmvax.UUCP (Dan Schein CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CEBIT Commodore Announcements (A2500, A3000)
Message-ID: <3533@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 88 14:47:45 GMT
References: <7735@oberon.USC.EDU> <375@brambo.UUCP>
Reply-To: schein@cbmvax.UUCP (Dan Schein CATS)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 47


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In article <375@brambo.UUCP> morgan@brambo.UUCP (Morgan W. Jones) writes:
>In article <7735@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu () writes:
>>were discussed. Mr. Gould STRESSED "the A2000 will remain compatible with
>>all new attributes of new Amiga products".
>
>I read this to mean that the 2000 can be upgraded (ie. plug in a card
>and/or replace a few chips).
>
>Comments?  Commodore?
>
   Comments? I think by now, myself and others (CBM employed and not) have
   commented this issue to death.   I just don't understand why people who
   are supposed to be of above average smarts, can not understand that the 
   2500 series of Amiga's are simply 2000's w/add ons (plug ins). Can you?

   Then to make matters worse, I see the re-hashing of  "why the A1000 can
   not become a 2000 (or 500)".   Did we not discuss all this 6 months ago
   when we introduced the 2000? Remember all the questions of "can I modify
   my A100 to use the new fat AGNUS"? I do!  Remember all the bitching and
   moaning because of the new Zorro ][ slot's? I do! Come on folks, we have
   been through all this already, lets move forward - not backwards.

   The 2500 series Amiga's -=> ARE <=- 2000's with a combination of boards
   added to them. The new chip set was designed to replace the chip set used
   in the A500 and B2000. Commodore has not forgotten the A1000, but in the
   same respect we can not let the A1000 stop us from moving forward. Remember
   the A1000 upgrade offer? We did give you a chance to upgrade, thats more
   than most computer companies do. We try damn hard to make new products as
   backwards compatible as possible, and I think that we have done a very
   good job of it so far.

>Morgan Jones - Bramalea Software Inc.        morgan@brambo.UUCP


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