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- From: rap2@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Alan Peters)
- Subject: A4000 price, availablity
- Message-ID: <Bzs70s.C6E@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>
- Summary: is it available and how much does it cost?
- Keywords: Amiga 4000
- Sender: Alan Peters
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- Organization: Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Nashville, TN, USA
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 20:46:03 GMT
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- I have owned an A1000 since early in 1986. It is clearly time to upgrade.
- I will buy either a PC clone or an A4000. Cheap PC clones can be had.
- It appears they have their own problems with processors outruning antiquated
- busses and graphics accelerators being good at windows or DOS but not
- both etc. As I wade through the morass of ISA, EISA, VESA VL, VGA, SVGA,
- etc (without the benefit of good definitions of what these specs actually
- mean), the seamlessly designed A4000 looks very attractive.
-
- For those of you in-the-know, I have a few questions:
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- 1. Is the A4000 available now?
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- 2. What is the street (mailorder?) price?
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- 3. Does the A4000 have a SCSI driver available yet?
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- 4. I have spent a considerable amount of money on software for my A1000.
- (E.g. WordPerfect, Manx C, Superbase, Digiview, DeluxePaint, Logistix,
- etc., etc.) Will any of this work on the A4000?
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- 5. In general do software companies offer upgrades at reduced prices to
- registered owners of older versions of their software?
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- 6. Is the A4000 going to be hardware upgradable? That is, when new pro-
- cessors are released or new graphics options are made available,
- how easy will it be to upgrade the A4000? I know that this might be
- impossible to answer. Has CBM indicated anything about the status
- of the A4000 with regard to future hardware development directions?
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- Thanks in advance!
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- Alan Peters
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