CompuServe Thread

1230XAUpgradeNotGoodDeal

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#58562From: Jonathan SchmidtJun 10, 1993 8:00 AM
I just wanted to say that I'm sorry that I won't beable to take advantage of your upgrade offer. But it just isn't as good a deal as it sounds. I have a quote from Software Hut for $509 including tax and shipping for the 50 Mhz board with a 50Mhz 882. This and taking into account that I have sold my 1200z to a friend for $75, I am only paying roughly $425 total whereas I would be paying about $550 from you guys. I don't know if there is anything you can do about this but if you could come close to that deal, I would be more than willing to order the board from you.
#58605From: R. Simonsen/MicroBoticsJun 10, 1993 6:06 PM
Jonathan: that's fine with us so long as you buy our products! And you'll always be able to do better via a private re-sale than we could possibly handle on a trade-up –an MBX is worth more at retail than at wholesale and effectively, a trade up can't even match *wholesale* value just to break even (from the mfr point of view). Moreover, the mail order community has become REAL aggressive in their prices lately and that's something we can't and don't really want to, attempt to control. I'm just happy you bought our XA. –Redmond
#58627From: Jonathan SchmidtJun 10, 1993 11:21 PM
Well, in that case… thanks! I will certainly try to scrape my cashola together as soon as I can and get it mail order. I was just under a misimpression of what you guys were trying to do. I do love your products! You certainly can't beat the price for the 50Mhz with MMU… by the way… what uses does the MMU have? I've heard of enforcer… what's that? JDSoftware Jonathan Schmidt – On AutoPilot from CompuServe Land
#58809From: R. Simonsen/MicroBoticsJun 14, 1993 7:35 PM
Jonathan: Enforcer is a developer tool (from CBM) to debug programs. MMU's most common use is to remap the operating system to fastram. Thanks for your support. –Redmond