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From: taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
Subject: Re: CDTV titles on an A500?
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Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1991 05:27:51 GMT
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In article <1991Jun2.232554.24741@daimi.aau.dk>, pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted) writes:
>zuckerma@aludra.usc.edu (David Zuckerman) writes:
>>>for the CDTV restrains my wife and me.
>
>>Commodore plans to release a CD-ROM drive that attaches to the expansion
>>port of the A500.  Known as the A690, it's been shown at a past CES and
>>carries a retail price of $699.
>
>WHAAAAT? If I have read other posts in these newsgroups correctly,
>this is more like the price for a CDTV!? Why would anybody want to
>pay so much for the drive, if they could get the CDTV(with an Amiga in it)
>for the same money? Surely, you are kidding? Or is the CDTV more 
>expensive than I thought? 
>

   The retail price of the A690 is $699, while the retail price of the
CDTV is $999 (U.S. prices).  You have probably heard prices for the
CDTV quoted in the $750 range -- these are discount prices.  You will
probably be able to find discount prices for the A690, too. 
Unfortunately, since Commodore probably will not sell as many 
A690s as CDTVs, the A690 may not be as heavily discounted as the
CDTV.

>
>--
>From the notorious
>                      Jakob Gaardsted, Computer Science Department
>Bed og arbejd !            University of Aarhus,  Jylland (!)
>(Pray and work!)  AMIGA!  pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk | I'd rather play Moria.

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