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- From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
- Subject: Re: 1200/4000 pricing
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <C012r8.JH0@fiu.edu> <1992Dec29.180028.13742@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:19:35 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.180028.13742@midway.uchicago.edu> sjchmura@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >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!
-
- Two local Omaha dealers are selling 33Mhz 486DX systems with 4M of RAM,
- SVGA card, SVGA monitor, and 100M hard drive for $1300. And prices are likely
- going to go lower still.
-
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- | Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
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