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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A3000 Rumor - InfoWorld
Message-ID: <1291@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 90 14:27:39 GMT
References: <28899@dhw68k.cts.com>
Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc., Louisville Ky
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daveegan@dhw68k.cts.com (Dave Egan) writes:

>Welcome back to the net, vacationeers!!!!!
>Here's a juicy roomer I read in the most current InfoWorld  (date ??)
>March 1990 availability of the .....
>   A3000 Amiga machine
>         - 68030 @ 25mhz

Gee where have you been? On vacation? ;-) The Amiga 3000 is old news here on 
the net. [Actually you posted more information than I have seen on the machine
so far]

What I want to know is:

If the Amiga 3000 is a 68030 box @ 25Mhz, then what (other than speed) is the
difference between the 3000 and the 2500/30?

Will the 3000 have the 030 on the motherboard and NO 68000? Will it be
compatible with standard Amiga software then? Will it have 32 bit slots? Will
there be any hardware for said slots?

And the $3500 question: Will the 3000 be worth paying twice the cost of a
2500/30 for? 

And I can almost guarantee the release of the 3000 within a year. You see, I
have this streak of strange luck.... Every time I buy a computer, it becomes
obsolete within a year. ;-)

My first computer was an Atari 400. Within a year it was replaced by the 800XL.
So I merrily plopped down bucks for that. Within a year it was replaced by the
800XE and then the Atari ST. I was fed up by then so I bought an Amiga 1000.
Yep, sure enough a year or so later CBM came out with the 500 and 2000.

I bet you've noticed that there haven't been much changes in the Amiga since
the 2000 came out? Well, that's because I have been holding out on getting one
since my Amiga 1000 does perfectly good by me. Once, I considered getting a
2000, and sure enough there were rumors of an Amiga 3000 coming out. I changed
my mind, and the rumors turned into the April fools gag with the Mac II. 

Well for the last few months I have been saving up for the 2000, and within
those few months we have CBM coming out with the new chip set, and more Rumors
of the 3000. I plan on getting a 2000 in February or March, so the release of
the 3000 is imminent and the poor 2000 will become old technology within a year
or so.

Hey, do you think that I might be able to make some bucks on this? I can take
up collections (bribes) to buy up new computers, forcing technology to ever
march forward! Every time someone thinks that progress is in the doldrums, they
can buy me the current state-of-the-art computer and Poof! it will be replaced
by a newer system on the market.

---useless prediction for the year 2000 follows ---- :-)
CBM will release the Amiga 4500 with built in emulations for all standard home
computers, VAX, SUN, and CRAY. :-)
[They should have named the Amiga... the Chameleon]
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