Gateway 2000 Buys Amiga

From: Mr. Self Destruct <more_at_camlaw.rutgers.edu>
Date: Wed Jul 9 23:52:09 1997

On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Jeff Hellige wrote:

> Jason,
>
> Yes, the A500, A1000, and A2000 are still quite useful and still quite
> capable of running the newest version of the OS and such even though they are
> upwards of 10 years old!

As long as you got the 100+ bucks for the rom and the disks...

>
> The fact that the A2000/A500 is now 10 years old and the A1000 is going on
> 13 years old doesn't point to it being very likely that the new company will
> continue production of spare parts for these machines though. I'd say about
> the only machines they are going to continue to support from the Commodore
> days are the A4000 and the A1200, which even leaves out my favorite, the

I think what Gateway had in mind was for the Amiga to be sorta like a
"WebTV" type thing. i.e. a bargain computer/box that'd let you "surf the
web."

> A3000. Thankfully, it's still quite easy to pick up replacement chips for
> almost any of the Amiga's from companies such as 'Software Hut' or 'Paxtron'.
> In fact, Paxtron seems to still be on the lookout to buy just about any A2000
> out there.

And subsequently charge you an arma and a leg when they sell it back to
you. Software Hut sells some of their "new" Amigas for more than they
cost when they came out years ago!

> Jeff jeffh_at_unix.aardvarkol.com
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Amiga enthusiast and collector of early, classic microcomputers

Don't get me wrong, I like my Commodore's just as much as the next guy.
But when I go to a plac and they want to chrge me $99 for a 60 meg IDE
drive then I have to think twice... Amiga stuff costs too damn much and
you really don't get much from them in return.
Received on Wed Jul 09 1997 - 23:52:09 BST