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I agree pretty much on everything, adding a hard disk would have placed the smaller machines in a whole different segment. I however recall also the A2000 was s

I agree pretty much on everything, adding a hard disk would have placed the smaller machines in a whole different segment. I however recall also the A2000 was sold without a hard disk, just to advertise it ad a lower price, which I find absurd since that way it was essentially an A500 plus expansion slots.

amiga386 4y ago
To be fair, the expansion slots were a pretty useful thing and allowed a lot of extra hardware (including the Video Toaster) that the A500 sidecar was incapable of. But yes, the original A2000 was a souped-up A1000, later upgraded to a souped-up A500. I looked this up and it appears the A2000 launch price was $1495 USD in March 1987, I don't know the UK price but it would've been around £950 at the time. That's ridiculously cheap (until you understand it's an A500 with Zorro and ISA slots). The A3000, probably the best machine Commodore ever made, launched for $3379 USD in 1990. I don't have any magazines from 1987, but Amiga Format issue 1 (August 1989) has an advertiser selling: A2000 standalone £799 A2000 with 1084s monitor and XT bridgeboard £1099 A2000 with 1084s monitor and XT bridgeboard and A2090a (HDD controller card for the A2000 because IDE hasn't been invented yet) with 20MB HDD £1369 A2090a with 20MB HDD £479 A2090a with 40MB HDD £750 A2058 (up to 8MB RAM expansion) with 2MB RAM populated £449 I can see why you'd offer a working system, 1MB RAM, floppies only, if it more than halved the visible price.