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From: oliver@tlab1.cs.unc.edu (Bill Oliver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Why trade in a perfectly good A-1000
Keywords: upgrade with the loss of your machine.
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Date: 10 Feb 90 13:38:49 GMT
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In article <1414@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:
>
>I plan on keeping my Amiga 1000. In a few years it will be a collector item!
>
>I can see myself dragging out my old trusty Amiga 1000 in 30 years and showing
>it to my grandchildren.
>
>"Gee Gramps! My watch can do more than that box!"
>
>"Yea sonny, back when I was a kid we didn't have all those newfangled gadjets.
>we had to be happy with floppy drives and 640 x 400 graphics"
>





Yeah, I still have, get this, an Exidy Sorcerer (yes, Virginia, they
made home computers before Apple).  I use it when I teach an introductory
computer course for non-technical types because every chip on the
motherboard is labelled.  It's great.  "See here, where it says 'RAM?'
Well, those little chips there are the RAM chips."


Bill Oliver