More 3000 Questions
23-May-90 00:43:05
Sb: #105914-More 3000 Questions
Fm: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
To: Michael McKnight 72677,3517
Michael,
1. Commodore has the educational prices listed in their area here
on CIS. GO CBM at any ! prompt and read the announcements.
2. Won't know until they actually start to ship. The official
announcement simply says 'shipments are expected to begin in July'
3. No idea since the machines' aren't shipping yet, I *presume*
they'll be set up much like the current dealer demo units with v2.0 on
disk. No idea if an upgrade to ROM will be a free upgrade or not.
4. You'll need a driver for SCSI devices that don't "look" like a
hard disk to the system.
5. The 5.25" drive can be mounted externally…or as an alternate,
you could get a 3.5" drive to replace the 5.25" drive.
6. It's my understanding that Commodore ships units in the order of
receipt of the order for the unit. Then again…if they've got a large
batch ofthem to ship…it may be done by zip codes for all I know.
7. I can't talk about anything that's not announced whether I knew
the answer or not.
8. 2 weeks sounds accurate…obviously for the 3000, the wait will
be longer since they won't start shipping right away.
Don