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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 1 million...
Message-ID: <5406@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 2 Dec 88 19:01:57 GMT
References: <3fff1a00.14e07@gtephx.UUCP>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <3fff1a00.14e07@gtephx.UUCP>, covertr@gtephx.UUCP (Richard E. Covert) says:

> In article <5376@cbmvax.UUCP>, daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>> in article <11767@cup.portal.com>, Xorg@cup.portal.com (Peter Ted Szymonik) says:
>> 
>> 	- [The A500 comes with 512K but accepts an little 512K add-on card 
>>         that brings it up to 1 meg.  Nearly every A500 is sold with this 
>          card).

> If so many Amigas are sold with the extra RAM then why have all of the 
> Amiags posted For Sale on usenet only have 512K??

Assuming your assertion is true, I'd say that's probably because most,
if not all, of the Amiga posted for sale on usenet have been Amiga
1000s.  Using Commodore supported methods, you can only upgrade an A1000
internally to 512K.  Using methods akin to some of the things available
for 520STs, A1000s can have much more internal memory, though you'll see
such systems for sale much less often.

> I disagree that most A500s go out of the store with the extra memory.

Well, they go into the store with the extra memory.  Commodore makes just
about 1 A501 for every A500 made.  To the extent that none of the 3rd
party folks sell any A501 clones (or even make them any more, to my
knowledge, though one company did try it).  

> People buy the A500 because they are cheap, and because Commodore has done
> a GREAT job ADVERTISING (Atari doesn't advertise!!) the machines. But adding 
> another 200-300 bucks would place the A500 in the 1040ST price range.

Even if the A501 memory card did cost $300, and it did bring the A500 price
up to the level of the 1040 ST, so what?  Folks don't buy A500s just beacause
they're cheaper than 1040 STs.  There are many things to consider.

Though I'm glad to hear that at least someone in the entire world thinks
Commodore has been doing a "GREAT job ADVERTISING".  This is absolutely the
first time I've heard anyone say anything to that effect.
-- 
Dave Haynie  "The 32 Bit Guy"     Commodore-Amiga  "The Crew That Never Rests"
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