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- From: sjchmura@kimbark.uchicago.edu (steven joseph chmura)
- Subject: Re: 1200/4000 pricing
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.180028.13742@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:00:28 GMT
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- In article <C012r8.JH0@fiu.edu> freire2a@serss0 (Angel Freire) writes:
- >
- >$2699 for the 4000
- >$ 579 for the 1200
- ^^^^^^^
- The "power up" price is $599.
- >
- >as an added bonus, both of these systems were being bundled with both
- >ADPro and Dpaint IV. those sound like VERY fair prices to me, especially
- ^^^^^^^
- No, the A1200 comes with final copy 1.3. With 2megs of ram, adpro will
- not run well :)
-
-
- The problem I see is the cost of turning the A1200 into a useable system.
- To add fast ram:
-
- Microbotics MX1200 - $149 best mail-order price AmigaMan
- 4 meg simm: $169 with purchase of the above (Memory world now
- wants $175)
-
- 85megHD with purchase = $289
-
- When you add this up, add tax and shipping, you can hit
- $1300 and still not have a monitor!
-
- We need cheaper ram boards/ a way to use 3.5" drives via a cable
- or something. $1300+$450 for a decent/shitty multiscan is
- not great for an 020 powered machine.
-
- But, alas, the A1200 I saw played 736x482x4 DCTV anims at about
- 100 frames/second :) Well, maye not, but these were "fly through "
- type. Also, the new ANim-7 format really speeds these things up (32
- bit writes versus anim-5 8 bit writes).
-
-
- --
- ________________________________________________________________________________Steven Chmura University of Chicago Medical School(M1)
- "Given enough time, the impossible becomes probable, and the probable
- inevitable.." -George Wald, "On the Origins of Life"
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