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From: mriley@pnet02.cts.com (Mark Riley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: CBM's "blessing"
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Date: 29 Sep 88 01:20:14 GMT
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On 9/27/88 papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>In article <7314@gryphon.CTS.COM> mriley@pnet02.cts.com (Mark Riley) writes:
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>>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-

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