Path: utzoo!yunexus!unicus!craig
From: craig@unicus.UUCP (Craig D. Hubley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hey, Commodore Sales:  Amiga 3000 Warning
Message-ID: <2547@unicus.UUCP>
Date: 15 Apr 88 22:08:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: unicus.2547
Posted: Fri Apr 15 18:08:51 1988
References: <7735@oberon.USC.EDU> <247@sdrc.UUCP> <930@rmi.UUCP> <61@kenobi.UUCP> <2520@unicus.UUCP> <1401@hubcap.UUCP>
Reply-To: craig@Unicus.COM (Craig D. Hubley)
Organization: Unicus Software Inc., Toronto, Ont.
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In article <1401@hubcap.UUCP> rchampe@hubcap.UUCP (Richard Champeaux) writes:
>words, I expect CA to continue making the A2000 to sell in the home market
>and I would therefore expect other companies to continue making ZorroII cards.
>Assuming that to be true, then you would have no reason, other than to get
>higher performance, to upgrade to an A3000.  In this case, upgrading to higher
>performance (even though your current machine will continue to be fully 
>supported) will include the price of new ZorroIII boards.  Now if CA decides

Getting higher performance is the usual reason to upgrade, no surprise there.
But the price of upgrading does not have to be artifically inflated by the
price of buying new cards.  This is pretty dumb from a corporate standpoint.
After all, what reason do I have to upgrade to an `Amiga 3000' and not a 
`Mac II' or a `SPARCintosh' ?  My software is Unix, my hardware is dead,
I have to replace my whole system anyway...  you see what I mean ?  *This*
would be yet another deep marketing fuckup.  And the only way I see around
it is to offer another tradein deal.  That'll hardly be cheaper than the
minor adjustments I and others have suggested.

>that the A3000 is going to be it's sole computer, and stops making the A2000,
>then your complaint has merit, because you'd be left with an unsupported
>machine with no possibility of upgrade. 
That's possible, and it certainly happened to the A1000, but I don't expect it.
Perhaps that's my naivete showing through, and a foolish trust of the company
that made my first two computers.

>(This next example is exaggerated to make a point.)
>If CA came out with a Cray clone for $4000-$5000 yet still sold the A2000,
>would you complain that you couldn't use your ZorroII cards in it?

I would if they called it an Amiga.

>Rich Champeaux
>Clemson University

	Craig Hubley, Unicus Corporation, Toronto, Ont.
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