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- From: marnold@cwis.unomaha.edu (Matthew Eldon Arnold)
- Subject: GVP A530 Turbo -- update --
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.181625.17446@news.unomaha.edu>
- Sender: news@news.unomaha.edu (UNO Network News Server)
- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 18:16:25 GMT
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- The GVP A530 ain't available. Let's look on the bright side... we can
- no longer accuse Amiga World of being last on the scene. They've
- made mention of the A530 for many moons now, and GVP still is not
- shipping the thing.
-
- I called GVP early August to see what's up. I played the a little game
- with my touch tone phone and their call routing system. I was dumped
- into a voice messaging system; so I explained what I wanted and left my
- name and number. The message basically was: I'm gonna buy the thing; I
- just wanna know when I can get my greedy hands on it. :)
- No one called me back.
-
- I called two weeks later (mid August) from a pulse phone (so I couldn't
- have played the phun phone game even if I wanted to) and spoke to a
- living, breathing person. She explained they (the A530s) are
- currently slipping out one or two at a time and wont be mass produced
- until the first of September. What the heck does that mean? You ain't
- gonna get one now, bub!
-
- So I called today. It's the first week of September. They now claim
- it'll be distributed in the middle of September. (Something about the
- IDES of September comes to mind.) We all know what happens then. The
- Big C will unleash... well, what will they release. We'll have to see.
-
- The moral of the story: The GVP A530 will be shipping exactly two weeks
- from "now." ("Now" is relative, of course.) And why should anybody
- drop that much cash just moments before the revolutionary new
- machines are introduced?
-
- Post here if you heard any different from GVP! C ya.
-
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