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#A500 & 1 MB Agnus

    20-Sep-90 00:05:51
Fm: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
To: Thomas Holaday 70407,534
Tom, Ok…I buy an A500p here in Denver. A month later I move to New York. A month later, I decide I want the 1 Meg CHIP upgrade. How do I prove that the A500 I bring into the dealer's is a 'p' machine vs a 'c' machine? Ok…Commodore puts a sticker on the machine saying it's a 'p' model, so that problem is solved. Now, since there is 0 difference between my 'p' model and Joe Blow's 'c' model other than the sticker…how does the dealer justify upgrading my machine, but not Joe's? I don't know the list pricing on the 2 models, but surely there's not that much difference…but even if there were…would it satisfy the customer of the 'c' model if the dealer said, "Well…Don paid an extra $XXX for that privledge". What then if Joe says, "Ok, I'll pay that extra amount also" BTW, any look at the price difference would have to include Joe buying an A501. No…since the base hardware is the same…the treatment ofthe machine must be the same also. The only way for Commodore to handle allowing the 'p' model to be 1 Meg CHIP and the 'c' model not to be…would be for the 'p' to come from the factory with it already enabled. Since at this point in time, they have decided not to do that…then both machines must be treated the same since they are the same machine. Don