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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The Mail Order Amiga
Message-ID: <19326@cup.portal.com>
Date: 10 Jun 89 10:29:05 GMT
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John Sparks writes:

" Well, let's get on with it! First, The Amiga 2500 is an Amiga 2000 with the
" following options:  A2620  - 68020 card with 2 meg of 32bit memory
"                     A2090A - SCSI hard disk controller
"                     40 Megabyte Ronin hard disk drive
                                  ^^^^^
and

" I generally found that it is cheaper to buy the Amiga 2500 as a package deal
" rather than buying the parts separate. You basically are getting the Ronin disk
" drive for almost free when you buy the 2500.                         ^^^^^

While I'm sure the fine folks at Ronin R&D (in Alameda, CA) would be pleased
to learn their name is associated with a crucial part of the Amiga A2500, the
drive is actually manufactured by RODIME (of Scotland).   :-)

John's article is overall quite good, but one issue I didn't see covered is
that of sales tax; there's a move afoot by states such as California and others
to badger companies to collect sales tax even when the company(ies) don't have
business offices in the state.  Such sales tax collection "persuasion" could be
the death of mail order when the tax collection erodes some of the advantages
of mail order.  :-(

Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]