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- From: thom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Thomas Clancy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Motorola pricelist (was RE: CPU MH
- Date: 15 Jan 1996 22:02:18 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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- On or about Sat, 13 Jan 96 00:54:28 GMT+1, Ruud Dingemans (rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl) did proclaim:
- ( In a message of 11 Jan 96 Thomas Tavoly wrote to All:
-
- ( TT> If AT has any sense they will stop the gap between the A1200 and A4000T
- ( TT> with an expandable desktop machine with detached keyboard. If they have
- ( TT> real sense they might implement the A1000 keyboard bay idea :)
-
- ( Dr. Kittel has already stated that this ain't gonna happen on the
- ( A1200+ because of the extra cost (redesign!) involved.
-
- Cost? Redesign? Bah, hire a few monkeys to drill holes in the side
- of the case, connect the required handful of wires and glue a damn
- phone jack into the hole. It's not a major job to install a 1k
- keyboard in a 1200. It's not like they'd have to retool a whole
- factory to install a few jumper wires. Of course, the reset
- function wouldn't work from the keyboard. Nothing a button bringing
- a signal to ground won't fix.
-
- ( So, we probably won't get that. On the other hand, we don't get a $ 50
- ( or $ 100 price increase either.
-
- 50$ for the require work/parts involved would by short of highway
- robbery. Pull out the stupid RF modulator, and make it an external
- option the way it was for the 500. Now that would save a heck of
- a lot more dollars. Hell, they could install the port for the detach
- keyboard and still save a small fortune.
-
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