Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ukma!gatech!mcnc!rti!sas!bts From: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: CEBIT Commodore Announcements (A2500, A3000), shipping RSN Message-ID: <437@sas.UUCP> Date: 5 Apr 88 08:58:12 GMT References: <7735@oberon.USC.EDU> <10260005@eecs.nwu.edu> <9454@sunybcs.UUCP> <3488@cbmvax.UUCP> <8649@g.ms.uky.edu> <8659@g.ms.uky.edu> <4012@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Reply-To: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger) Organization: SAS Institute Inc, Cary NC Lines: 28 ALL RIGHT, I can't stand it anymore. I've stayed out of this discussion so far, but I've got to put in my 2-cents worth: It is true that other manufacturers don't have ideal upgrade paths. And people complaining about lack of Fat Agnus support for the 1000 or other "motherboard" issues are just being silly. AND the trade-in offer was very generous. BUT Commodore did screw its Amiga 1000 owners in a unique way: Without providing *major* new functionality, they changed their official expansion board specs in a non-compatible way. If the a 1000 is fully decked-out with everything, no problem. Just ignore the 2000/Zorro-2. If the 1000 has no expansion, also fine. Wait for the 2000-in-1. BUT if you already have *some* Zorro-1 expansion cards, and you want to upgrade further, you are screwed. Hardware folks are dropping Zorro-1 support faster than a speeding bullet. I really can't see why they had to change them in a non-compatible way at all, but if they did, what Commodore should have done (maybe it's not too late?) is to provide at low cost an expansion cage for the 1000 that holds *both* kinds of cards (perhaps 3 Zorro-1's and 3 Zorro-2's) when they released the 2000. This takes care of the only legitimate complaint that I can see we 1000 owners have. Sure, we won't be able to upgrade motherboard things. But making our peripherals useless was not nice, and the 2000 trade-in offer failed to address this problem. -- --Brian. (Brian T. Schellenberger) ...!mcnc!rti!sas!bts PET PEEVE: remember to keep included text small for us 1200-bauders . . .