Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!rochester!bbn!oberon!pollux.usc.edu!papa From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: CBM's "blessing" Message-ID: <12399@oberon.USC.EDU> Date: 27 Sep 88 06:55:16 GMT References: <7314@gryphon.CTS.COM> Sender: news@super.ORG Reply-To: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) Organization: Felsina Software, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 39 In article <7314@gryphon.CTS.COM> mriley@pnet02.cts.com (Mark Riley) writes: >On 9/26/88 ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy) writes: >>In article <7239@gryphon.CTS.COM> mriley@pnet02.cts.com (Mark Riley) writes: >>>It took a long >>>while for many A1000 owners to upgrade from 1.1 to 1.2, and that was >>>as simple as copying a disk. >>Really? Is that how you upgraded to 1.2? I seem to remember paying >>about $15 for mine... > >I suppose you are trying to imply something by that. I thought the >heckler only existed on BIX, but alas, it seems that they are to be >found here as well. Tis a shame. Mark, loosen up :-) You must not have been around Usenet for long. If you call this "heckling", you really cannot imagine what real "flaming" is. What is he "trying to imply"? It's a fact that 1.2 was SOLD for $15 as part of the "1.2 Enhancer Kit". Some dealers let people copy it indiscriminately, but that was their decision. >P.S. FYI, I got my upgrade through the (pre CATS?) development > program (if you could call it that.) I'm sure they charged > us (Everyware, Inc.) for that Not so, at the Second Developer's Conference in Monterey everyone got a copy of the "1.2 Enhancer" before it got to the stores. It was absolutey FREE. >as they charged us for the > pre-release Amiga's we had in our possession. Again, not entirely true. How many companies that received the "loaner" A2000s were asked to return their machines when the B2000 was finally released in the US? NONE. I guess you were among the "unlucky" ones cought in the bad times of early '86 when CBM was in real financial trouble. -- Marco Papa 'Doc' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= uucp:...!pollux!papa BIX:papa ARPAnet:pollux!papa@oberon.usc.edu "There's Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Diga!" -- Leo Schwab [quoting Rick Unland] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=