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From: jxc@rayssdb.ray.com (Jeffrey J. Clesius)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 1000 owners get sticked?
Summary: Two cents from a stuckee.
Message-ID: <1880@rayssdb.ray.com>
Date: 29 Mar 88 17:20:26 GMT
References: <37321R38@PSUVM>
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In article <37321R38@PSUVM> R38@PSUVM.BITNET (aka Marc Rifkin) writes:
>All I can say is what did you expect from your computer when you
>bought it?

When I purchased my 1000, I knew it had a bus expansion connector.
I expected Commodore to produce a 'standard' expansion chassis and an
interface definition from which many third party developers could produce
expansion cards.  The lack of a standard chassis lead to SOTS cards and
conflicting expansion chassis' with differing power and interface
requirements; the change in the Zorro interface lead to many third party 
drop outs in the Amiga market.  The expandability that I expected to be
produced for my 1000 did not come to fruition.

The fact that the 2000 and the 500 are being done correctly does not 
change the fact that they dropped the ball on the 1000...

And THAT I did NOT expect when I bought my computer!

(Yes, Commodore did provide me with the opportunity to 'purchase an expansion
chassis' by offering the 1000+1000=2000 trade-in.  I just didn't have the $$.
This isn't a cry of moral outrage, it's an honest response to your question.)
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