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From: robin@sabre.uucp (Robin D. Wilson/1000000)
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Subject: Re: A1500 [long]
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Date: 8 Feb 90 15:40:29 GMT
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In article <368@poppy.warwick.ac.uk> phupp@warwick.ac.uk (S Millington) writes:
>The following intersting article was in a UK magazine:
>  From "Popular Computing Weekly" 1-7 Feb 1990:
>"ADIOS AMIGA"
>    Commodore claimed to bo unruffled last week when a tiny North London
>firm made a bid for the Amiga 2000 market with a cheap A500 upgrade that
>turns the micro into it's big brother.
>    Checkmate Systems' "A1500" Amiga upgrade, basically a new enclosure for
>the A500, allows the user all the expansion options afforded by the A2000,
>except for PC compatibility, for "less than 200pounds".

OK so where do we get one in the U.S.A.?  I want the external keyboard and the
flicker-fixer.


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