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- From: psheffield@earthlink.net (Patrick Sheffield)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 26 Mar 1996 23:47:34 GMT
- Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc.
- Message-ID: <1371.6659T924T1591@earthlink.net>
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-
- >I may be in the minority when it comes to Amiga users, but I for one
- >try to purchase a computer that will be able to suit me past next
- >Tuesday. The 4000/030 I bought nearly 3 years ago has done a terrible
- >job of staying contemporary simply because it uses non-standard parts,
- >which makes it extremely expensive to upgrade.
-
- >Reg Martin
-
- Just one more thing in the list of things that Commodore got wrong later in
- life...
-
- I bought a 128k Mac in 1984. That same year I had to plunk down a wad
- of cash for a new motherboard in order to get 512k 'cause there weren't
- nothing you could do with only 128k. Then I needed to upgrade it again in
- order to add the double sided disk drive, etc (512k E).
-
- At that point I decided that I'd made a mistake and in 1985 bought an Amiga
- 1000 for ~$1400 (512k, 2 880k(!) disk drives, 1 360 k 5 1/4 drive along with
- the Transformer IBM emulator, 1084 monitor, mouse, etc. This served me (with
- minor upgrades of and additional 2 meg of memory, and a hard drive) for /FIVE/
- years. Then, in 1990, the A3000 came out and I purchased one of the first in
- the store and it has served me since then (tho it's definately showing it's
- age).
-
- Point being that the Amiga _was_ ahead of the curve, and the OS, etc was
- flexible enough to change with the times. We can only hope that AT some how
- manages to re-capture that edge.
-
- Patrick Sheffield
-
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