Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!rochester!cornell!mailrus!ames!elroy!gryphon!pnet02!mriley From: mriley@pnet02.cts.com (Mark Riley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: CBM's "blessing" Message-ID: <7375@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 29 Sep 88 01:20:14 GMT Sender: root@gryphon.CTS.COM Organization: People-Net [pnet02], Redondo Beach, CA. Lines: 31 On 9/27/88 papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes: >In article <7314@gryphon.CTS.COM> mriley@pnet02.cts.com (Mark Riley) writes: [Deletions...] >>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. Ok, that sounds right. I did not attend that conference but someone else from the company did. Though didn't they charge for admittance at the conference? >>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. We were. Although it wasn't A2000's but A1000's (and problematic ones at that.) -Mark- UUCP: ...!crash!gryphon!pnet02!mriley BIX: mriley LAT: 34.25 N INET: mriley@pnet02.cts.com PLINK: SONIX LONG: 118.78 W "Hey, I don't _use_ programs, I write them..." ;-)