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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Anyone actually own an 040 Amiga?
Message-ID: <1991May14.124913.9400@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
References: <o#3H6uz@cs.psu.edu> <1991May13.113026@alamo.Berkeley.EDU> <1991May13.190307.4383@wam.umd.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 May 1991 12:49:13 GMT

In article <1991May13.190307.4383@wam.umd.edu> ddev@wam.umd.edu (Don DeVoe) writes:
> >Conversly, the C=64 I bought 6-7 years ago for $395.- is now worth
> >between $1150.- to $1500.-

> I must have missed something...this WAS a joke, right? (Or perhaps an 
> intentional jab from a NeXT owner trying to make amiga owners look silly?)

You missed something. It's called the Amiga Power-Up program. You get those
sorts of discounts on an Amiga 3000 in trade for an earlier Commodore machine.

And you get to keep the old machine.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
