Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!rg20+ From: rg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rick Francis Golembiewski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Death of the 1000 Message-ID: Date: 24 Dec 88 06:16:17 GMT References: <6084@louie.udel.EDU>, <14247@oberon.USC.EDU> Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 35 In-Reply-To: <14247@oberon.USC.EDU> In article <14247@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes: >|The difference in retail cost locally (Calgary, Alberta) is about $1600 (A500 >|w/1Mb = $1000, A2000 = $2600). Now perhaps you can understand why some users >|have a hard time trying to justify "upgrading" from a 1000 to a 2000. >|$1600 for a heavy duty power supply, a few edge connectors, a hunk of plastic >|case, and a lot of air is rather steep >Yea, and the processor, custom chips, and 1 Meg RAM are FREE, right? :-) >And by the way, you DON'T HAVE to buy the A2000 or upgrade, if you don't >want to. Just keep your A1000, and stop bitching and whining. Hold it a sec, the A1000 has the SAME processor, & custom chips, so you are telling me that 512K of memory+ edge connectors is a $1600 difference? I could MAYBE see justifying $600 for all the extras (and that is streatching it a bit). I also realize R & D is a significant % of product cost, but seriously I should think that the research for the 1000 was a lot more then that for the 2000 because the 2000 is so similar to the 1000. I would LOVE an inexpensive way to add 1 or 2 Zorro II slots (and I could live with no passthrough, and no video/cpu slots). As mentioned the hardware is not all that complex (ie edge connectors, possibly some logic) and the major costs would be power supply and case, so if there are any hardware people out there who think that they could put togeather a working schematic, I for one would be willing to pay for a PC board (I can get the power supply and support components myself), and I would think that there would be enough 1000 owners interested for a small scale production, similar to the LUCAS project. Is there anyone out there with the ability & desire to make an attempt? +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Disclaimer: Me? Post That, impossible I never post anything... | | TypetoYouLater(Everyone); --> "functional Good bye".... | | Rick Golembiewski [ Pronunciation is half the Battle, spelling the other] | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+